About Us
Lois E. Silverman
Founding Chairperson, The Commonwealth Institute
Lois E. Silverman was the founder of CRA Managed Care (now Concentra Managed Care), a provider of services to reduce the costs of workers' compensation, automobile, disability and health insurance claims. She served as Chairman of the Board of the public company from 1994 to September 1997 and as Chief Executive Officer from 1988 to 1995. Mrs. Silverman is one of the first women in Massachusetts to bring a company public.
In October of 2005, Mrs. Silverman became the first woman chair of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is a director of Fiduciary Trust Company and Immunetics, Inc., a former trustee at Brandeis University, a corporator at Simmons College, a member of the Chairman's Cabinet at the Hebrew SeniorLife and a director of Kramer Senior Services Agency and Morse Geriatric Center in Florida.
She has received numerous honors for her business acumen and leadership abilities. In 2003, she was named to the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Boston by Boston Magazine. In the fall of 2005, she received the Philanthropic Innovator Award from The Committee of 200 and was chosen as a Woman Who Makes a Difference from the International Women’s Forum. She received her nursing degree from Beth Israel Hospital in 1961, an honorary undergraduate degree from Simmons College in 2002, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College in 2003.
