About Dallas

Dallas Ducar is a healthcare executive, nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and health-policy leader. She is Chief Strategy Officer at Fenway Health, where she leads the organization’s long-term growth strategy, including a new office for business development and project management, strategic partnerships, communications, government relations, and community engagement. She joined Fenway in 2024 as Executive Vice President for Donor Engagement and External Relations.

Before Fenway, Dallas was the founding President and CEO of Transhealth, an independent health center for transgender and gender-diverse people in western Massachusetts. She led the organization from 2020 to 2024, through its opening in May 2021, as its team built primary care, mental health, research, education, and advocacy programs. In August 2023, Healthcare Brew reported that Transhealth served roughly 2,000 patients across New England.

Dallas trained as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and was clinical lead for mental health services in the Massachusetts General Hospital Transgender Health Program. Clinical practice still shapes how she works as an executive: start with what patients and staff need, then build the operations, partnerships, and policy that make good care possible. She advises local, state, and national leaders on health care organizational design and sustainability, and advocates for protections for both providers and patients.

Policy and public service

Dallas co-chairs the LGBTQ+ Health Care Alliance and contributed to the 2025 revision of the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Nurses. She served on the Northampton Board of Health from 2021 to 2024 and on Attorney General-elect Andrea Campbell’s 2022 transition team for the Health Care and Fair Competition Bureau.

Teaching, research, and recognition

She is on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Nursing, Columbia University, and the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Her research and writing address clinician wellbeing, end-of-life care, nurse practitioner practice, telehealth, and gender-affirming care. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (2022) and received the Tim Porter-O’Grady Nurse Leadership Award (2022) and the AACN Pioneering Spirit Award (2023). She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and a certificate in Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Boards

Dallas is Vice President of the Board of Directors of GLAD Law. She also serves on the boards of Mass NOW, the Healing Our Community Collaborative (HOCC), and the University of Virginia Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA) Fund, and on the Health Advisory Council for Western Governors University.

Outside of work, Dallas finds meaning hiking with her dogs, exploring the outdoors, and spending time with family and friends. Her work is driven by a single aim: affirming healthcare that expands freedom, empowers patients, builds more ethical systems, and restores a community focus to clinical care.

Views on this site are Dallas’s own and do not represent the positions of any organization with which she is affiliated.