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.


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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