Nancy Falchuk

Northeast

Nancy Falchuk is currently on the Hadassah International Team. She was the 24th Hadassah national president.

Nancy formerly served as chair of Hadassah Magazine, the Hadassah Nursing Task Force and the Hadassah Philanthropy Division, and she is currently chair of the Hadassah Nursing Resource Committee and a member of the Hadassah Gift Committee.

She was a founding member of the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) Board of Directors and has served since the establishment of the Board in 1995. Before becoming president of Hadassah International, Nancy was chair of medical and scientific relationships for Hadassah International. She traveled through Europe, South America and Israel, raising substantial funds for HMO as well as promoting HMO’s work and creating medical cooperative relationships for Hadassah with other major academic centers.

Nancy, a nurse, co-founded the Hadassah National Center for Nurses Councils, the first and still the only national professional organization for Jewish nurses. With the support of more than 5,000 members of the Hadassah Nurses Councils, Nancy spearheaded the effort to successfully create and fund Israel’s first academic clinical master's program in nursing at the Henrietta Szold Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing in Jerusalem. In 2018, Nancy was honored by Young Judaea Global, the premier American Zionist youth movement, for all her efforts on their behalf and by Hadassah for her work to support nursing at Hadassah and in Israel.

Nancy is currently a member of the New England JCC Leadership and Governance Committee and the Advisory Council of Jews of The Americas at Brandeis University.