Cassandra Davis, MS

Biography

Cassandra “Cassie” Davis was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Erie County Medical Center Corporation (ECMC) in June 2026.

In her previous role as Senior Vice President of Operations, she oversaw multiple key clinical service areas, including: surgical, rehabilitation, ambulatory, population health, pharmacy and lab services.  In addition, Cassie was responsible for plant operations and all capital matters throughout the institution. Among her notable contributions and accomplishments were the introduction in 2025 of the Symani® Surgical System, a first-of-its-kind robotic technology that uniquely addresses the scale and complexities of microsurgery, making ECMC the first hospital in Western New York to house this surgical technology. The System enabled surgeons at ECMC to use microsurgical techniques with robotic precision to perform reconstruction of small blood and lymphatic vessels to help restore quality of life for more patients.  Also in 2025, thanks to Cassie’s efforts, ECMC opened its new Breast Health Center, which provides a full continuum of care, from education and screening to reconstruction and oncology treatment in one centralized location. The new Breast Health Center offers mammography patients the gold standard in 3D imaging using Hologic Dimensions equipment as well as the Hologic bone density (DEXA) system.  Breast ultrasound also playing a critical role in mammography is performed on a state-of-the-art Toshiba Sequoia unit. These services are offered daily and in one convenient suite allowing the patient to move comfortably between modalities. The Center, the first bricks and mortar mammography suite in the Delevan-Grider neighborhood, supports the immediate needs of the neighborhood’s residents, which is listed as “highest need” on the City’s priority needs ranking map. Since opening, 411women have been screened in the Center, 78% of whom are minority women.

In July 2023, Cassie transformed ECMC’s longstanding Summer Youth Internship program into an extremely competitive immersive summer internship experience called Healthcare Explorers. Open to area high school students in 10th, 11th and 12th grades, who apply to participate, including submitting a short-form video explaining why they want to participate in the program, Healthcare Explorers allows students to have hands-on learning opportunities across the ECMC health campus and helps them explore such areas as: ambulatory services, critical care, emergency services, hospital public safety, inpatient pharmacy, IT security, laboratory medicine, medical/surgical nursing, radiology, surgical services, and transplantation services. Since its inception, more than 240 students from 50+ schools, have discovered the full spectrum of health care professions while enhancing their resumes and building valuable networks. The success of the program caught the attention of Healthcare Association of New York State, which filmed one of the sessions and shared highlights, including interviews with participants and program organizers, with their 500 not-for-profit and public hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare member organizations statewide as part of the Association’s Member Spotlight series. The program was also highlighted in 2025 at the annual national conference of America’s Essential Hospitals, the Washington, DC-based advocacy organization for the nation’s public safety net hospitals.

In her previous role as Vice President of Ambulatory Services and Population Health for ECMC, Cassie covered a broad spectrum of duties affecting the health and wellness of the community, as well as many operational needs within the health care organization.  She oversaw outpatient operations, including Primary Care and over twenty different Specialty Services, focusing on transformation of care delivery and growth of services.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, her role significantly evolved and grew, including establishing processes and services to provide COVID-19 testing, monoclonal infusion services and vaccinations for both the ECMC healthcare staff and the broader community.  These efforts included working closely with New York State representatives to establish pop-up vaccination sites across the City of Buffalo and its suburbs.  She has been with ECMC since 2008 beginning her career there in Care Management.

Cassie Davis represents ECMC and participates in several community partnerships and collaborations across Western New York.  She is Board Chair at the Crisis Services Foundation and is a member of the SNAPCAP Inc. Board of Managers. She also completed a Fellowship with America’s Essential Hospitals in 2020.