Dr. Cynthia Ambres is an entrepreneurial dynamo who has run a successful consulting company specializing in provider and payer transformation, has twice served as the Chief Medical Officer, once at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Northeastern and Western New York, the second at Kaleida Health. She was in the Global Center of Excellence at KPMG’s Global Healthcare group. She got her medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, earned a Masters degree in Health Policy and Management at New York University and did her post-doctoral surgical internship and fellowship at St. Vincent’s Hospital.