Patricia (Patty) Massey-Lavely
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Patricia (Patty) Massey-Lavely is the senior vice president and chief information officer at Memorial University Medical Center. She oversees the day-to-day operations and strategy of our information services (I.S.) team. Before joining Memorial in 2006, Massey-Lavely was chief information officer at Phoebe Putney Health System in Albany, Ga. Prior to that, she was with Promina Health System in Atlanta, where she worked her way up from director of physician services and information systems to vice president and chief information officer. She began her career as a payroll manager at Columbia/HCA MedFirst.

Massey-Lavely is a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. She is a certified healthcare executive by the American College of Healthcare Executives and a certified professional in healthcare information management. Massey-Lavely is also a former member of the Georgia VHA CIO Council (a private cooperative that serves nonprofit healthcare organizations nationwide) and the National VHA I.T. Executives Affinity Group. In addition, she serves on the McKesson Integration Advisory Council. In 2008, the Georgia CIO Leadership Association named her CIO of the Year.

Massey-Lavely earned her bachelor’s degree in science at Shorter College in Rome, Ga., and her MBA at Florida State University.