Chief Health Officer

Dr. Cecilia Warpinski Stuopis ’90 is the chief health officer at MIT, leading MIT Health. She joined then-MIT Medical as the medical director in December 2015. A practicing board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, Stuopis earned her BS in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT in 1990 and her MD from the University of Nevada School of Medicine in 1996. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 2000 and completed a master’s degree in healthcare delivery science at Dartmouth College in 2016. In 2021, she became a certified physician executive.

As chief health officer, Stuopis provides strategic, clinical, and administrative leadership for MIT Health. She is responsible for administering and evaluating healthcare services, assuring compliance with MIT policies and federal regulatory requirements, and Joint Commission accreditation. In her role as the senior physician on campus, she advises MIT leadership on the creation and implementation of campus healthcare policies; she most recently provided clinical leadership and guidance as MIT navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to returning to MIT, Stuopis was the vice president and executive medical director for accountable care at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire and responsible for all Dartmouth Health accountable care organization (ACO) programs, including implementation, medical management, quality measure reporting and monitoring, and contract performance. In that work, she collaborated with operational leaders and frontline providers to achieve optimal patient quality and utilization outcomes. Prior to her ACO work, she was a physician informaticist at Dartmouth Health and co-led the implementation of the ambulatory portion of an enterprise-wide Epic electronic medical record transition. She also served as the obstetrics and gynecology department chair for Dartmouth Health in Nashua and was active in the clinical teaching of ob-gyn residents and medical students.