Penn Medicine has named Julia Puchtler its next executive vice president and chief financial officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.<\/p>\n
In a Sept. 10 announcement<\/a>, the Health System said Puchtler, who has served as senior vice president and chief financial officer since 2024, will continue overseeing UPHS finances. In her new role, she will take on additional responsibility guiding Penn Med\u2019s strategic direction.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a privilege to work alongside colleagues who are deeply committed to Penn Medicine\u2019s mission and the communities we serve,\u201d Puchtler wrote in the announcement. \u201cI look forward to continuing our work to steward our resources responsibly, navigate the challenges ahead, and create the financial foundation that allows our teams to advance care, discovery, and education.\u201d<\/p>\n Puchtler\u2019s duties now include \u201cexecutive leadership for the revenue cycle, corporate finance, financial operations and budgeting, billing compliance, and supply chain and procurement functions,” according to the announcement.<\/p>\n In the release, UPHS CEO Kevin Mahoney described Puchtler as an \u201cexceptional leader and trusted advisor,\u201d and praised her work \u201cduring a period of extraordinary change and complexity across healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the DP delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n Sign Up<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHer strategic vision, sound judgment, and deep commitment to our mission have strengthened Penn Medicine\u2019s position and helped ensure that we can continue investing in our people and the patient care, research, and education that define our organization,\u201d Mahoney added.<\/p>\n Jonathan Epstein, who serves as dean of the Perelman School of Medicine and executive vice president of UPHS, wrote that Puchtler \u201ccombines exceptional financial expertise with a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing academic medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHer leadership has been instrumental in ensuring that Penn Medicine can continue making strategic investments that support both the clinical enterprise and our research and education missions,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n Prior to becoming<\/a> the chief financial officer of UPHS in 2024, Puchtler served as chief financial officer for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Penn Med in 2015.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Puchtler spoke<\/a> to The Daily Pennsylvanian about Penn Med\u2019s expansion into telehealth services. She also discussed how financial responsibility entails balancing projects that generate a return on investment with those that do not.<\/p>\n Senior reporter James Wan leads administration reporting and can be reached at wan@thedp.com<\/a>. At Penn, he studies communication and computer science. Follow him on X @JamesWan__<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn Medicine has named Julia Puchtler its next executive vice president and chief financial officer of the University…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-286251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}