STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health are pleased to welcome John Levin and Susan Bostrom to its Board of Directors, each chosen for their extraordinary success, vision and leadership.
John Levin joined the Board in January of this year. Levin is chairman of Folger Levin LLP -- a practice focused on transactions and strategic advice for businesses, non-profit organizations, and high net worth families and individuals. His career includes a wide range of community activities and numerous board positions; in 2009 he completed a 10-year term as a trustee of Stanford University, the last five years as Vice-Chair of the Board. Levin has been active in the leadership of Stanford Law School, serving as a member of the Dean's Advisory Council, Co-Chair of the Campaign for Stanford Law School and a member of the Executive Committee of the school's Board of Visitors. Additionally, Levin received his law degree from Stanford Law School in 1973, earned a Master of Arts degree in Education from Stanford University in 1970, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1969.
Levin also currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Stanford Health Care and convening Co-Chair of the Campaign for Stanford Medicine.
The Board also welcomes Susan Bostrom, who joined the Board on September 1. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of several institutions, including Varian Medical Systems, a manufacturer of medical devices and software; Cadence Design Systems, an electronic design software company; Rocket Fuel, Inc., an artificial intelligence media buying company; Marketo, a marketing software automation firm; and ServiceNow, an Enterprise IT cloud company. In addition, she served on the Stanford Health Care Board of Directors from 2004 to 2013. In her long and prestigious career, Bostrom has held the position of executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Cisco Systems; led Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG); and has served as the executive sponsor of the Women’s Initiative at Cisco. In all, she spent 14 years at Cisco Systems. Bostrom received a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in marketing from the University of Illinois.
“We are very fortunate to have these passionate visionaries on our Board of Directors,” said Christopher G. Dawes, president and chief executive officer of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health. “Their innovation as individuals combined with their enthusiasm for what we do will lead to great progress for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health.”
About Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Stanford Children’s Health, with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford at its core, is an internationally recognized leader in world-class, nurturing care and extraordinary outcomes in every pediatric and obstetric specialty from the routine to rare, for every child and pregnant woman. Together with our Stanford Medicine physicians, nurses, and staff, we deliver this innovative care and research through partnerships, collaborations, outreach, specialty clinics and primary care practices at more than 100 locations in the U.S. western region. As a non-profit, we are committed to supporting our community – from caring for uninsured or underinsured kids, homeless teens and pregnant moms, to helping re-establish school nurse positions in local schools. Learn more about our full range of preeminent programs and network of care at stanfordchildrens.org, and on our Healthier, Happy Lives blog. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is the heart of Stanford Children’s Health, and is one of the nation’s top hospitals for the care of children and expectant mothers. For a decade, we have received the highest specialty rankings of any Northern California children’s hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospitals survey, and are the only hospital in Northern California to receive the national 2013 Leapfrog Group Top Children’s Hospital award for quality and patient care safety. Discover more at stanfordchildrens.org.
