Janice Nevin
Janice E. Nevin is an executive who in 2014 became President and CEO of ChristianaCare Health System. She is the first woman to be the head of Delaware's largest hospital system.
Early life and education
Nevin was raised in Delaware after and moving to the United States from England in 1970. Her father was a priest and her mother worked as a secretary in the school district.Nevin graduated from St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware. She graduated from Harvard University in 1981, and then attended Thomas Jefferson University medical college where she earned her M.D. in 1987. She specialized in family medicine and was the residency director at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. She also earned a Masters in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992.
Career
Nevin and co-authors have published on primary care within a community, preventative care for children and menopausal women. In 2002 she joined ChristianaCare as the senior vice president of their Wilmington campus. She served as the chief medical and patient safety officer, before being named as CEO in 2014.During a podcast hosted by the Academy Table, Nevin described the arc of her career, women and leadership, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In a 2021 conversation at the National Academy of Medicine, Nevin shared her work in preventing burnout in clinicians during the pandemic.