Susan L. Freeman, MD, MS

ASU Faculty Page
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Focus Areas
Population Health and Health Outcomes
Transformative Change and Innovation
Leadership
Education

Degrees and Training
Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Mayo Graduate School
MD, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
MS, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Administrative and Preventive Medicine)
MS, Wayne State University, Detroit (Biochemistry)
BA, Kalamazoo College

A healthcare executive, educator, and consultant, Dr. Freeman is the President of Creative HealthCare Initiatives, LLC, focused on addressing fundamental and infrastructural challenges in healthcare through population health strategies; leading transformative change; innovation; and education. She serves as a consultant to the Healthcare Transformation Institute on the Behavioral Health Consortium project in Maricopa County, working with health systems and other stakeholders to improve preventive measures and outcomes for patients with complex mental and physical illnesses.

Prior to moving to Arizona, Dr. Freeman was the Provost and Senior Vice President, and the Robert C. and Naomi T. Borwell Presidential Professor, at Rush University in Chicago. Serving as the chief operating officer of the university, she orchestrated the production of a comprehensive university strategic plan, as well as the integration of new academic business alliances and strategies with the Rush University System for Health. Dr. Freeman was a co-founder and co-director of the Rush Institute for Health Equity, advancing work on decreasing disparities in health outcomes. She also initiated the Office of Human Centered Design, integrating the application of design methods into health system science and planetary health.

Prior to her position at Rush, Dr. Freeman was the Chief Medical Officer, Vice Dean of Health Care Systems and the founding President of the Temple Center for Population Health at Temple University and Temple University Health System in Philadelphia. In addition to administrative operations, process improvement, and clinical oversight of health care delivery, she initiated the curricula in health system science and population health at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and taught master’s degree courses in quality and patient safety at Thomas Jefferson University. Consistent with her focus on population health, she received funding from state and federal grants affording her the opportunity to work with state and local government agencies to create strategic models, policies, and plans for the delivery of high value care, including work with the Pennsylvania Innovation Population Health Workgroup and with the Philadelphia Commissioner of Health.

Dr. Freeman is a Fellow of the American Association of Physician Leadership (AAPL) and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). She volunteers as a mentor for the AACE and is a steward for the City of Scottsdale McDowell Sonoran Conservancy in Arizona.