Sarah Padfield

Executive Director, Sarah Padfield is an established and transformational senior health leader with broad experience in strategic planning, human resource management, financial planning and management, operations management and change management.  With over 20 years’ experience leading health care organizations and public-sector service, Sarah has been recognized as a dynamic, thoughtful lecturer, teacher, innovator, consultant and coach.  

Appointed in 2021, Sarah also serves as the Director of Operations for the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University.  Through her cross-appointment, Sarah has been a bridging force bringing together the academic mandate of Fowler Kennedy with our academic partners at Western.

Sarah has served as a Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Vice President of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, a community hospital in Southwestern Ontario.  She has also been Vice President, Corporate Services and CFO of Erie Shores Health Centre, Leamington Ontario and Site Director of Four Counties Health Services, part of the Middlesex Hospital Alliance. 

Sarah is a Chartered Public Accountant (CPA-CMA), a Certified Health Executive (CHE), has obtained her Master’s in Public Administration, Western University and an Undergraduate Degree with High Honours, Carleton University.  Sarah was asked in 2016 to serve as a Health Leader In Residence at the World Health Innovation Network – Odette School of Business, University of Windsor.  In 2014 she was the national recipient of the Robert Zed Young Health Leader award.  She has been a sessional instructor in the Odette School of Business with a focus on organizational behavior and organizational design and has served as an Instructor in the Advanced Healthcare Practice Program, Western University, Faculty of Health Sciences teaching Health Policy, Systems and Design.