Allegheny Health Network Appoints Crawford-Faucher to Chair Role
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Allegheny Health Network recently announced the appointment of Dr. Amy Crawford-Faucher as Primary Care Institute chair.
Crawford-Faucher brings to the role nearly a decade of experience and a proven track record of driving transformative change within AHN.
“We are thrilled to name Dr. Crawford-Faucher as our new Primary Care Institute chair,” said Dr. Don Whiting, AHN chief medical officer. “Amy is an exceptionally talented and dedicated clinician whose ability to build strong, patient-centered teams and programs has been an incredible asset in every role that she has played for us.”
Whiting said Crawford-Faucher’s deep understanding of primary care, coupled with her experience in leading complex initiatives across AHN and Highmark Health, makes her uniquely qualified for the chair role.
“Dr. Crawford-Faucher will be instrumental in driving the success of our living health, value-based clinical model with primary care leading the way,” Whiting said.
Crawford-Faucher has served as vice chair of the AHN Primary Care Institute since 2020 and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine since 2018, overseeing the strategic operations, programmatic integration and growth of over 100 primary care offices. Her responsibilities have included the ongoing quality and performance evaluation of the network’s 400-plus primary care and family medicine clinicians and their support teams, as well as direction of the AHN/Highmark Health Employee Health department.
Prior to these roles, Crawford-Faucher served as residency director and medical director of AHN’s Forbes Family Medicine Residency program and director of medical care for UPMC’s Western Psychiatric Hospital. She is a graduate of the Medical College of Pennsylvania/Drexel University and completed both her family medicine residency and faculty development fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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