As chief strategy and growth officer at Sutter Health, Ms. Lee is responsible for the development and oversight of Sutter’s enterprisewide strategic vision, business development, and mergers and acquisitions for the nation’s 10th largest healthcare system, which serves 3.5 million patients across Northern California. Her tenure has been marked by the organization’s ability to take care of more patients through tremendous geographic and programmatic expansion, with Sutter adding approximately 100,000 new patients in 2024, following 50,000 in 2023, plus an additional 160,000 patients through the Sansum Clinic partnership. This strategy includes a $1 billion ambulatory and acute expansion plan that will lead to 27 ambulatory care sites, 27 urgent care centers and 22 surgery centers, serving 400,000 more patients with expanded cancer, neurological, primary and specialty care. Ms. Lee also played a key role in forming the Stanford Medicine | Sutter Health Cancer Collaborative, a multidisciplinary outpatient cancer center opening in 2025. She led Sutter’s merger with Sansum Clinic, creating Sutter Health’s sixth geographic division and expanding advanced diagnostic imaging, ambulatory surgery and specialty care in Santa Barbara, Calif. Ms. Lee brings to her role more than 25 years in healthcare strategy, mergers and physician network development.
