Transformational Healthcare Executive | Strategic Operator | Equity-Driven Leader

Shivon Carreño is a seasoned healthcare executive with over 15 years of experience leading operational strategy, cultural transformation, and equity-centered innovation across a complex academic medical center. With a career spanning neuroscience, neurosurgery, and orthopedics, she has built and led high-performing teams that deliver measurable gains in access, efficiency, and financial performance.

A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Shivon approaches complex operational challenges with a collaborative mindset, thoughtful execution, and a focus on delivering results that elevate people and performance. She has led enterprise-level initiatives in workflow redesign, revenue recovery, and clinical expansion, translating data into action and strategy into impact. Shivon has also launched multidisciplinary centers for complex neurological care, overseeing every element from strategic planning to staff integration. These centers brought together specialists in neurology, neuropsychology, pain management, internal medicine, geriatrics, nursing, and social work. Built to treat and deliver high-quality, compassionate, whole-person care for patients facing some of the most complex and challenging medical conditions.

Equity is not an afterthought in Shivon’s work. It is embedded in her approach to system design and leadership. She has led efforts to expand specialty care access for underserved populations, developed equity-focused data strategies, and created operational models that remove barriers for historically marginalized patients. Her emotionally intelligent, results-driven leadership embeds equity as a strategic priority, recognized not only as a value but as a driver of performance and impact.