Deane is president of the United States Board of Directors of Medecins sans Frontiers/Doctors without Borders.She recently retired from Massachusetts General Hospital where she was an anesthesiologist. She is now devoting all of her time to Medicins sans Frontiers/Doctors without Borders (MSF), which she joined in 2006 to work as an anesthesiologist in their surgical program in Ivory Coast. She has worked as an anesthesiologist with MSF in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Libya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Burundi, and as a medical doctor in Libya, Lebanon, and Guinea. Deane is a graduate of University of Wisconsin and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.