Susan Freeman

Susan L. Freeman, MD, MS, FACPE, FACE

A physician executive and educator, Dr. Freeman is the Associate Dean of Strategic Affairs and Professor of Practice at The John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering, Arizona State University. She chairs the Strategic Planning Committee, and participates in leading the management of evolving policy, governance, curriculum, continuous quality improvement and accreditation.

Concurrently, Dr. Freeman is the President of Creative HealthCare Initiatives, LLC, focused on addressing fundamental and infrastructural challenges in the delivery of high value healthcare. She provides operational expertise for the Healthcare Transformation Institute, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Arizona State University Center for Health Care Delivery and Policy, leading a consortium of health systems to address behavioral health outcomes in Maricopa County. She also serves as a lecturer for Barrett, The ASU Honors College, in a series of courses related to health system science and teaches in the leadership program for HonorHealth Chief Residents.

A life-time member of the American Association for Physician Leadership, Dr. Freeman serves on the faculty and teaches strategic planning.

Prior to her positions in Arizona, Dr. Freeman served as the Provost and Senior Vice President, and the Robert C. and Naomi T. Borwell Presidential Professor, at Rush University in Chicago. At Rush, she implemented new business alliances, opened a new human systems design program, updated the university strategic plan, and participated in strategies for innovation and discovery to impact health outcomes and health system transformation.

At Temple University in Philadelphia, Dr. Freeman served as the Vice Dean of Health Care Systems, Chief Medical Officer, and founding President of the Temple Center for Population Health. There she implemented an integrated value-based population health platform and, working with state and local government agencies, created strategic models for the delivery of high value care across the region. She developed and implemented the curricula in health system science and population health at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and taught master’s level courses in quality and patient safety at Thomas Jefferson University.

A graduate of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Dr. Freeman completed both her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. She holds Master of Science degrees in Preventive and Administration Medicine and Biochemistry. Dr. Freeman is a fellow in the American Association of Physician Leadership (AAPL) and in the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). She volunteers as a steward for the City of Scottsdale McDowell Sonoran Conservancy.