Len Fishman

Len Fishman, Visiting Scholar at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and Former CEO, Hebrew SeniorLife, is credited with leading the Boston-based facility’s transformation from a long-term care organization to an integrated health care and housing system, serving seniors of all faiths and incomes, increasingly in community-based settings. Fishman has broad experience in the fields of health-care and senior services. He served as commissioner of Health and Senior Services in the cabinet of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and was president of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging the 6,000-member national organization of nonprofit long-term care and senior housing providers.