Lara Khouri, MBA, MPH

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Lara Khouri is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, responsible for overseeing operational performance across the CHLA enterprise. Khouri works alongside clinical and administrative leaders to develop and improve processes, procedures and systems while addressing patient care needs, patient and team member experience, and CHLA’s impact in the broader community.

Khouri also oversees strategy and transformation functions, including CHLA’s Ambulatory Operations; Center for Global Health; Government and Community Relations; Health System Development and Integration; Innovation; Marketing and Communications; Research Operations; Service Lines and Strategic Planning departments. Additionally, she champions physician alignment for the enterprise in close partnership with the academic department chairs and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group. She also oversees hospital-based clinical services provided by the departments of Anesthesiology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Radiology and Respiratory Therapy, as well as the enterprise support provided by the department of Information Services.

Before coming to CHLA, Khouri was executive director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Integrated Care Organization and senior director of Integrated Care at Boston Children’s Hospital. In both roles, she oversaw the implementation of accountable care delivery, including quality and cost performance measurement and improvement, as well as development and implementation of integrated care models and value-based payment models. Prior to her work in Boston, Khouri was the founding program director of the Healthy Weight Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Khouri has been a lecturer in health policy and management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health since 2004, and also serves as adjunct faculty at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. She was honored as the 2021 Ira Alpert Service Awardee by the Fielding School Health Policy and Management Alumni Association. Khouri also is a member of Women in Health Administration of Southern California and was honored as the organization’s Woman of the Year in 2016.

In addition, she serves as a trusted board member and advisor for several other organizations, including the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House, the American Hospital Association Maternal Child Health Council, the American Hospital Association Population and Community Health Advisory Committee, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management Alumni Advisory Board, and the State of California’s Department of Health Care Services’ (DHCS) Children’s Services Advisory Group.

Khouri earned her MBA and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University; she has undergraduate degrees in geography and economics from George Washington University.