Cassesso to chair health system's board of trustees

The Cambridge Health Alliance, a healthcare system, said that Mary Cassesso, dean for administration and finance at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has been named chair of CHA’s board of trustees.

Cassesso is the first woman to be named chair of CHA’s board, the alliance said.

“Mary Cassesso possesses a wealth of understanding about Cambridge Health Alliance’s important mission in the communities it serves,” Dennis Keefe, CHA’s chief executive, said in a statement. “She brings a significant level of experience in academics and community leadership to CHA, which will serve the system well as it continues to improve the lives of the communities we serve.”

The alliance is a health system that provides care in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston’s metro-north communities; it includes three hospital campuses and more than 20 primary care and specialty practices.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)