For the third straight year, three female RWJBarnabas Health executives were recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as 2025 Women Hospital Presidents and CEOs to Know.
This list highlights the female hospital presidents and CEOs around the country who are expanding access to care, spearheading initiatives, and helping to close the gender gap in leadership.
RWJBarnabas honorees are:
- Lisa A. Breza, chief administrative officer of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, has administrative oversight of the hospital’s acute care and ambulatory settings, and provides strategic leadership and direction to enhance operational processes and achieve key hospital goals.
- Nancy DiLiegro, president and CEO for RWJBarnabas Health Trinitas Regional Medical Center, is responsible for ensuring high-quality care delivery to patients each day. Overseeing all internal and external operations at Trinitas, she works with the hospital’s physicians and staff to implement best-in-class clinical practices, identify and develop new innovations and tools that drive hospital growth and increase patient outcomes, and facilitate relationships with key stakeholders.
- Deanna Sperling, president and CEO of RWJBarnabas Health Behavioral Health Center, is responsible for bridging the gap between behavioral health and non-behavioral health services. Under her leadership, the system’s behavioral health services place an emphasis on training staff to deliver trauma-informed care and treatment.
Each of these executives have appeared on this list since 2023.
RWJBarnabas Health is New Jersey’s largest academic health system, caring for more than 5 million people annually. The system includes 14 hospitals and 9,000 affiliated physicians integrated to provide care at more than 700 patient care locations. RWJBarnabas Health is among New Jersey’s largest private employers, with more than 44,000 employees.
