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Two New York Institute of Technology alumni have been named to the Board of Trustees, the most recent alumni to join the university鈥檚 governing board, effective December 2025.

Elizabeth Haines (D.O. 鈥�05) is chief operating officer of Mount Sinai Kravis Children鈥檚 Hospital and senior vice president of pediatric services for Mount Sinai Health System. Fred Harris (B.S. 鈥�08, M.B.A. 鈥�10) is managing director and global head of information security and technology risk at Deutsche Bank.  

Both alumni are strong ambassadors for the value of a 蘑菇传媒 education. They are exceptional role models for students and have been actively sharing their expertise with members of the university community. 鈥淲e are proud that our alumni hold their alma mater in such high regard and are grateful for their willingness to help guide our continued growth and commitment to provide students with a career-focused education,鈥� says 蘑菇传媒 President Dr. Jerry Balentine.

Elizabeth Haines is a focused and dedicated healthcare leader with successful experience in strategic planning, program development, and implementation across all domains of quality at a large academic health system. Her areas of expertise include emergency medicine, improvement and safety sciences, data management, health equity advancement, change management, clinical outcomes excellence, health-systems partnership and growth, and patient and family-centered care. Prior to becoming chief operating officer at MSHS-Kravis Children鈥檚 Hospital, she served as a service chief of quality for Hassenfeld Children鈥檚 Hospital-NYU Langone Health. She is an associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine. She also researches the use of point-of-care ultrasound and runs a national project examining neonatal infections in babies. Haines completed her primary residency training in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and had a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Morristown Medical Center, part of the Atlantic Health System. In 2024, she was named alumna of the year by New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

Fred Harris is an accomplished executive with nearly four decades of cross-industry experience in the professional services, financial services, technology, media, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, performing arts, and healthcare industries. He spent the last decade focused on technology risk, cybersecurity risk, and compliance roles. Before joining Deutsche Bank in December 2024, he was the global head of technology risk and compliance at Citibank. He also served as the U.S. head of IT risk, cybersecurity risk, data risk, and compliance at Soci茅t茅 G茅n茅rale, was a global technology operational risk officer at Bank of America, and spent 16 years as the global head of technology operations and support for Deloitte Audit. He has spoken at several university-sponsored conferences and is the former chair of 蘑菇传媒鈥檚 alumni association. He was honored in 2023 with a fellowship and is the current Scholar-in-Residence for the Center of Risk Management in the university鈥檚 School of Management.