Top 25 Women in Healthcare - 2017
Susan DeVore
President/CEO, Premier
DeVore has been president and CEO of Premier since 2009. Under her leadership, the publicly traded supply-chain organization and healthcare-improvement company has won numerous awards for innovation. She was at the helm when Premier became the first hospital-owned GPO to go public. Prior to being named president, she was COO at Premier for five years, leading its four core business units and helping the organization win a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. She serves on the board of trustees for the Healthcare Leadership Council and has held board positions at other councils and organizations, including the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Healthcare.