Lisa Dykstra served as the CIO Strategic Advisor for The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Prior to this role, Lisa held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital from 2015 to 2024. She spent much of her nearly thirty-year information technology career in leadership positions at the country’s top academic medical centers including the University of Chicago Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Lisa’s career focus was to drive healthcare delivery transformation and value, including through applications, digital health, information and cyber security, and technology programs. She was an award-winning CIO, being named Enterprise CIO of the Year 2019 and winning a Chicago Orbie award.
She was actively involved on several community and industry boards, including Erie Family Health, the InspireCIO/Chicago CIO Leadership Association and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. Lisa served on the American Heart Association — Go Red For Women Board from 2016 – 2025.
She received a B.A. in Communications from DePaul University.