Massachusetts Medical Society: Leading with Impact: Essentials for Physician Leadership in an Uncertain Environment – Faculty Biographies

Leading with Impact: Essentials for Physician Leadership in an Uncertain Environment – Faculty Biographies

Corinne Eisenman

Corinne Eisenman, MS

Facilitator and Executive Coach

Corinne Eisenman is a leadership and team development coach, consultant, and facilitator with a rich experience base in both for-profit and non-profit sectors. She is passionate about supporting leaders to achieve results through authentic connection: to self, team, and purpose. Her work focuses on building capacity and trust, creating clear communication and accountability, and creating joyful, productive organizational cultures.

Corinne is a Team Coach for the Cornell Johnson School of Business Executive MBA programs, and a facilitator and coach for the Maine Association of Nonprofits Leadership Institute. Individual coaching clients seek her out for leadership development, organizational change strategies and support, and creating supportive and lasting work cultures.

Corinne has been a key member of leadership teams of both for-profit and non-profit entities; she brings her depth of experience in leading and managing organizations to the table with clients. Corinne holds a master’s degree from Lesley College and a BA from Hiram college. Her coach training is through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and Positive Intelligence. In her free time, Corinne loves to explore the trails of Maine, sing, and follow wildlife tracks.


Deeb Salem

Deeb N. Salem, MD

Senior Vice President for Academic Integration, Tufts Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Dr. Salem received his BA and MD from Boston University (six-year medical program) in 1968.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Chest Physicians. He was the Chairman of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine as well as the Physician-in-Chief at the Tufts Medical Center and the Sheldon M Wolff Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine from 2000 to 2021.  Dr. Salem has had a distinguished career as an academic cardiologist. In 1987, he was appointed Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He served as Chief of Cardiology at the Tufts Medical Center from 1987 to 1995. Dr. Salem has been President of the New England Cardiovascular Society.  He was the founding President of the New England Affiliate of the American Heart Association.  His academic accomplishments include over one hundred and ninety scientific publications.  He is recognized as a national expert in coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.  Dr. Salem received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University School of Medicine in 1998, the Distinguished Faculty Award from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1998, an American Heart Association Great Communicator Award in 1999 and an American Heart Association Distinguished Leadership Award in 2000.  He received the Massachusetts Physician Health Service Distinguished Service Award in 2003.  In 2007, Dr. Salem was the recipient of the American Heart Association’s Paul Dudley White Lifetime Achievement award.  In August of 2007, Dr. Salem received the Champions in Healthcare, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boston Business Journal. From 2007-2009, Dr. Salem was an Editor-in-Chief of the Images.MD Editorial Board. In 2010 Dr. Salem was awarded the Tufts Medical Center Working Wonders Lifetime Achievement award. He has served on the Executive Board of the Board of Trustees of Tufts Medical Center and is an emeritus member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Affiliate of the American Heart Association. From2014 -16 Dr. Salem served on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital Association. In Dr. Salem is also a board member of the Wang Chinatown YMCA. He was appointed the Chairman of the Board of the Asian American Civic Association in 2021.  He has served on the boards of New England Quality Care Alliance, the Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization, the Tufts Health Care Institute and the Ray Tye Medical Foundation.  He was elected to the Publications Committee of the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003, served as the Vice Chair in 2009 following which he served as committee advisor until 2021.  He has repeatedly been listed in Boston Magazine as one of “Boston’s Best”.  In 2009, Dr. Salem was invited to participate on the Mass Medical Society’s Committee on Sponsored Programs and has served as its Chair. In 2016 Dr. Salem received the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Award for Medical Service. Dr. Salem served as Interim President of the New England Medical Center in 1997 and Interim Co-CEO of Tufts Medical Center in 2018. In May 2021 Dr. Salem received the coveted Tufts University School of Medicine Dean’s Medal in recognition of extraordinary service. On May 19, 2023 in honor of Dr. Salem’s outstanding service and leadership Tufts Medical Center named 35 Kneeland Street, one of its research and clinical buildings, The Salem Building.


Olivia Liao

Olivia C. Liao, MD, FACS

President, Massachusetts Medical Society

Olivia Liao is a board-certified ophthalmologist at Lexington Eye Associates, a multi-specialty private practice group with 6 locations. She has served on its Board of Directors and as its Treasurer since 2000. Also, as a founding member and co-owner of Surgisite Boston, Dr. Liao is a member of its Quality Assurance Committee. At Emerson Hospital since 1996, she has held numerous committee positions, including Medical Staff Officer.

Dr. Liao has been an active member of the Massachusetts Medical Society since 1988 and dedicates effort to multiple committees. Within Middlesex District, her responsibilities include executive committee member, secretary-treasurer, previous vice-president, and president. She was named the 2019 Middlesex District’s Community Clinician of the Year. She served as MMS’s vice-chair and chair of the Committee on Legislation, co-chair of the Working Group on Governance Reform, chair of the Task Force on Joint and Several Liability, vice-chair of the District Leadership Council, vice-chair of the Committee for Strategic Planning, member of the Board of Trustees, member of the Committee on Administration and Management, and member of the Task Force on Health Insurance Policy.

She is a longtime member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology; the New England Ophthalmological Society; the Massachusetts Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, serving as its co-councilor and on the Board of Trustees in 2022; the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons; Women Ophthalmologists of Boston; and a Fellow at the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Liao graduated from the Six-Year Medical Program of Boston University College of Liberal Arts and was conferred her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. She completed residencies and board certification in internal medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital and in ophthalmology at Tufts-New England Medical Center New England Eye Center.

She has been honored with multiple awards for her exceptional service, leadership, dedication, and expertise in the field of ophthalmology. Dr. Liao is an active volunteer for the Lions Club and the Community Council on Aging and conducts annual vision and glaucoma screenings and fundraising for Emerson Hospital's family health events. She has served as the traveling doctor for the New England Conservatory's piano department.



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