Carol A. Lovin
MHSA, MN
SEVP, Chief of Staff and Chief Integration Officer
Carol A. Lovin is Senior Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff and Chief Integration Officer for Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States – created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health.
In her current role, Carol provides executive leadership for all integration initiatives, including efficiency and growth synergies, and plays a central role in building connections, relationships and the new organization’s culture. Carol also co-leads new partner work with the CFO and oversees Advocate Health’s M&A business development team. As chief of staff, she coordinates the work of the Advocate Health Board of Directors and executive leadership teams.
Prior to Advocate Health, Carol was the executive vice president, chief integration officer and system chief of staff for Atrium Health. In the past, she also served as Atrium Health’s chief strategy officer, overseeing strategy, business development, innovation, communications, marketing and external affairs.
Deeply invested in the community, Carol was one of 10 Charlotte business leaders who led the combination of the Charlotte Chamber and Charlotte Regional Partnership to form the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance. She is past chair of the Alliance, past chair of the Charlotte Regional Partnership and is a board member of the Charlotte Sports Foundation.
Carol has been named to WomenInc.’s Most Influential Women Executives in Corporate America. She has also received the Charlotte Business Journal’s Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award, and was named Charlotte Business Woman of the Year by Queens University. Among others, recognitions also include being named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s “Women Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know” and “Hospital and Health System Chief Strategy Officers to Know.”
Carol holds a Bachelor of Science and a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Washington, and a master’s degree in health services administration from the University of Michigan.