Dorie Klissas is a distinguished journalist who has held leadership positions in marketing and communications at preeminent academic medical centers in New York and New Jersey. As Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, she oversees all branding, marketing, digital and social media, media relations, internal communications, crises, content, and creative including design as well as video and podcast production. 

Dorie’s abilities as a storyteller have allowed her to tell compelling brand stories which are magnified on media channels from digital to print media. Her award-winning healthcare advertising campaigns reflect the mission, vision, and values of the institutions she has served. Her media relations skills have resulted in as much as a 250% increase in media stories at a health system over one year of oversight. Digitally accomplished, she oversees aspects of the consumer experience as well as digital and social media. 

Her proactive media strategy has resulted in a No. 1 ranking in total media stories among U.S. News & World Report-ranked medical institutions in the nation's top 100 national media for the past six years, as well as a No. 4 ranking among national competitors in terms of total social media footprint.

For fifteen years, Dorie worked on the Today show on NBC where she produced breaking news and groundbreaking medical series with anchor Katie Couric. She produced Couric’s memorable interviews with the late actor and activist Christopher Reeve, as well as a multipart series on infertility, ADHD, autism, and medical miracles. Dorie was also the chief medical producer at CBS Evening News with Katie Couric where she wrote and produced daily medical stories and award-winning enterprise stories.  

As a veteran of eight Olympics with CBS and NBC Sports spanning three decades, she has covered the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. As a city producer for Matt Lauer’s Where in the World? trips on Today, she coordinated productions in Morocco, Athens, and Mykonos.

Dorie spent time in front of the camera as a reporter for KARK-TV, the NBC affiliate in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was a producer/reporter for the Financial News Network in New York and previously worked as a banking analyst at The First Boston Corporation.  For several years, she anchored and produced Let's Talk, a biweekly interview show on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in New York City that focused on news, sports, business, and the arts.

Dorie earned a BA in European history from Harvard University, where she was on the varsity tennis team. She also worked in the scheduling office of Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis and was an intern at the press office of the Greek Embassy in Washington, DC. She studied security studies at the Graduate School of International Affairs in Geneva, Switzerland, as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. As an 18-year-old, Dorie achieved a national junior tennis ranking of #101 in the United States Tennis Association and a #9 ranking in the Eastern Tennis Association. She started her career in television as an intern for CBS Sports commentator Bud Collins at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York.