Katherine Gordon Backes

Katherine Gordon Backes is a senior manager with more than a decade of experience advising healthcare organizations at the intersection of operations, technology, and strategic data insights. She partners with health system leaders to navigate the multifaceted challenges facing the industry today, drawing on experience that spans the full strategy-to-execution continuum, from advisory and strategic planning through large-scale implementation and ongoing operations. This breadth positions her to bring an integrated perspective to complex initiatives, teaming across capabilities to deliver comprehensive healthcare solutions spanning large-scale operations, product and asset delivery, regulatory compliance, and value creation strategies that help clients achieve measurable, sustainable results.

Backes helps lead Deloitte’s women’s health initiative, whose mission is to build market awareness of the persistent gaps in women’s healthcare and mobilize stakeholders across sectors to close them. The initiative develops research-driven thought leadership, amplifies its message in collaboration with industry partners, and builds solutions with clients to address identified gaps in care delivery, cost, and accessibility, as well as other challenges that impact health outcomes.