Susan Mooney, MD, MS, FACOG
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sue Mooney, MD, MS, FACOG, has been the President and CEO of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital since April of 2013. She joined the Medical Staff at APD in 2000 as a full-time Obstetrician/Gynecologist and continued in that role until 2005 when she took a leave of absence to pursue fellowship training. Upon her return to APD two years later, she became the Medical Director of Quality and ultimately the Chief Medical Officer before transitioning to her current role. She is passionate about improving the quality of care that APD provides to patients.
Mooney completed her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, her Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and her residency at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. As a Veterans Administration Quality Scholar, she received a Master's Degree in Healthcare Quality Improvement from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth (now The Dartmouth Institute).
In her spare time, Mooney enjoys spending time with her family enjoying the outdoors.
Awards and recognitions
Maryann Caron, MPH
Vice President of Outpatient Provider Services
Maryann Caron, MPH, joined APD in 2013. Previously, Caron served as the Director of Quality and most recently as the Associate Vice President of Clinic Operations at APD. In her role as Director of Quality, she modernized APD's approach to quality improvement, laying the groundwork for the exceptional quality standards that APD meets today. As the Associate Vice President of Clinic Operations, she contributed to the expansion of primary care and surgical and specialty services.
Caron earned her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and received her master's degree in Public Health from the Dartmouth Institute (formerly the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences). She is a Certified Lean Sigma Green Belt and a TeamSTEPPS Trainer.
Michael Lynch, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Michael Lynch, MD, MBA, joined APD in June of 2019. Previously, Lynch served as Executive Medical Director of Same Day Services at Reliant Medical Group in Worcester, Massachusetts. Prior to Reliant, Lynch worked clinically as an emergency physician at Concord Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire. He was the Medical Director of Urgent Care and served in multiple leadership roles including the Concord Emergency Medical Associates President and the Chair of Emergency Medicine. In addition, he served as the Chair of the Concord Hospital Charitable Trust.
Lynch earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, received his medical degree from the University of Virginia, and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also completed a Physician Executive MBA at Brandeis University. In addition to his current administrative work as Chief Medical Officer, Lynch works clinically in the emergency department at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He is also on the faculty of the Geisel School of Medicine and serves as a Clinical Instructor.
Paula Seaman, MSN, DA, RN, CENP
Chief Nursing Officer
Paula Seaman, MSN, DA, RN, CENP, joined APD in 2023 as the Associate Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) before being promoted to Chief Nursing Officer in 2024. During her time as ACNO, Seaman made significant contributions, including the development of an organization-wide professional governance structure and the creation of a nursing clinical ladder program. She also championed the implementation of the international DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses and launched a peer support program in collaboration with Trivium Integrated Mental Health. Before joining APD, she held roles with the Dartmouth Health System such as the System Director of Professional Practice at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Administrative Director of Quality and Magnet at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center.
Seaman earned her undergraduate nursing degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a master's degree in nursing from Franklin Pierce University, a master's degree in public administration from Suffolk University, and a doctorate in leadership from Franklin Pierce University. She is also certified in executive nursing practice and critical incident stress management.
David Watts, SHRM-SCP
Senior Director of Human Resources
David Watts, SHRM-SCP, has more than 20 years of human resource experience in healthcare in the Upper Valley, most recently as the Director of Human Resources at Kendal at Hanover. He is a frequent volunteer with area non-profits and can often be found on a bike, on a trail, or in the garden. Watts and his family live in Vermont and spend considerable time in the Northeast Kingdom. He completed the Chief Human Resource Officer Executive Education Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2024.
Watts holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of Connecticut and a Master’s in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.