Office of Advanced Practice Providers
Marissa Cauley, PA-C, serves as the Chief Advanced Practice Provider Officer at Brigham and Women’s and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospitals and is a practicing hospitalist physician assistant.
Marissa began her career in advanced practice at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Cardiac Surgery in 2006, transitioning to BWH in 2011 as part of the Hospital Medicine service. For over a decade, she was Co-Chief of the PACE Hospital Medicine team, where she led exponential growth of the service, played a key role in advancing quality improvement and operational initiatives, and served as the PA Co-Dyad Leader for BWH inpatient services during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, she was honored with the BWH Distinguished Physician Assistant Award and became the first PA at BWH to serve as a Unit Medical Director within the Hospital Medicine Unit.
Marissa has also contributed to the Massachusetts Association of Physician Assistants (MAPA), serving two terms as Director-at-Large. Since 2022, Marissa has served as Senior Director of BWH PA Services, overseeing and advancing a community of nearly 600 physician assistants—the largest group of PAs in the MGB system and in New England.
A Massachusetts native, Marissa is a graduate of Boston University and the Quinnipiac University Physician Assistant Program. At BWH, she completed the CPIP and Brigham Leadership Programs.
As the PA Education Manager, Carrie has oversight and management of the BWH PA Student program, Pre-PA shadowing, mentoring programs and PA professional and educational development at the local and MGB level. Carrie’s Brigham affiliation dates back to 2001 when she first started her career as a PA. Carrie returned to the Cath Lab in early 2015 and is now a Senior PA on the Interventional Cardiology Service, where she will remain clinically while in this role. She completed her Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Carrie has been instrumental in developing and implementing a STRATUS Center Cath Lab Orientation course for incoming cardiology fellows, new PA hires, Cath lab technologists and PA students. She received the "STRATUS Center Staff Educator of the Year" Award for these efforts in 2022-2023. Carrie continues to coordinate educational opportunities for the PAs in her department, including a Cardiovascular POCUS course. She has been an instrumental member of the inaugural BWH PA Leadership Council serving as the Co-Chair of the Continuing Education Subcommittee and looks forward to continuing her work developing new educational opportunities at BWH and MGB.
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