Cathedral Square Announces New Board Members
Dr. Stephen Leffler, Lacey Smith, and Susan Stock have been named to Cathedral Square's Board of Directors.
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT — Cathedral Square, a leading nonprofit committed to addressing the critical need for affordable housing for older adults and people with diverse needs in Vermont, proudly announces the appointment of Dr. Stephen Leffler, Lacey Smith, and Susan Stock to its esteemed Board of Directors. “We are thrilled to welcome these three highly accomplished individuals to our board this year,” says Cathedral Square CEO Kim Fitzgerald. “We look forward to the innovative ideas and fresh perspectives they will bring to our organization.”
Stephen Leffler, MD is President and Chief Operating Officer of The University of Vermont Medical Center. Dr. Leffler began his career at UVM Medical Center as an emergency room physician 30 years ago. He served as Chief Population Health and Quality Officer for the UVM Health Network from 2017-2019, Chief Medical Officer at UVM Medical Center from 2011-2017; and prior to that, he served as Medical Director of the Emergency Department for several years. Dr. Leffler also has served as a professor of surgery at the UVM College of Medicine, President of the Medical Staff at UVMMC, President of the Vermont Medical Society, and Chair of the OneCare ACO Board. He received his medical degree from the UVM College of Medicine and completed residency training in emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico before joining the UVM faculty in 1993. He completed his Master's in Health Care Delivery Science at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2016. In 2023, Dr. Leffler was named a “Academic Medical Center CEO to Know” by Becker’s Health Care.
Lacey Smith is Assistant Director of the Crisis, Advocacy, Intervention Programs Unit within the Burlington Police Department. She has called Vermont home for the last sixteen years, spending the entirety of that time working for the Burlington community. Originally from Connecticut, Lacey was intentional in choosing to live in Vermont and raise her family here, as the shared feeling of community was not something she experienced elsewhere. Her professional career consists of working in both the nonprofit and public sector; ten of those years as a public servant for the City of Burlington. Seven of those ten were spent as the only public safety social worker for the City, with the last three consisting of growing a division of positions related to providing social work service throughout the public safety system in Burlington. The foundation of her work is grounded in community connections and holistic social work approaches. She is the mother of 2 boys, a couple of dogs, lizards, and chickens.
Susan Stock’s background is in health care consulting, though she is now retired. She began her consulting career at McKinsey & Co. and focused primarily on health care services and products. She left as a partner and founded her own consulting practice where she worked across all sectors of health care. Her focus was on issues of strategy development, organization design and function, operation improvement and post-merger management. Stock worked with former Cathedral Square CEO Nancy Eldridge to help frame and develop the SASH model as it was getting underway. She has also been deeply involved with the Shelburne Food Shelf. She was part of the board that brought the organization under the Vermont Food Bank umbrella and professionalized its approaches. She was Board Chair at the start and through the COVID pandemic, rapidly shifting their “shop” model to an order and delivery model and spearheading the involvement of an army of volunteers to make that approach feasible. Though no longer on the board, she is still a regular volunteer with the Shelburne Food Shelf organization.
Learn more about our Board of Directors here.