Dr. Susan Ehrlich

Susan P. Ehrlich, MD, MPP Dr. Ehrlich is the Chief Executive Officer of the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Prior to her appointment at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG), Dr. Ehrlich served as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Vice President of Ambulatory Care Services, founding Medical Director of the Ron Robinson Senior Care Center (an interdisciplinary patient-centered medical home for older adults) and Assistant Health Officer for the San Mateo County Health System. Dr. Ehrlich also has extensive background and knowledge of public health policy and finance at all levels of government, having served as Budget and Planning Director for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and an analyst within the California State Legislative Analyst’s Office. She is a Lean-certified physician executive with extensive expertise leading and transforming public health care organizations serving diverse populations. Dr. Ehrlich received her BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University, her Master’s in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and her MD from the University of California, San Francisco. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, and completed her primary care internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard University-affiliated training hospital. Zuckerberg San Francisco General is a 598 bed acute care hospital, and through its long-standing affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco, serves as San Francisco’s only Level 1 Trauma Center. Annually, ZSFG serves over 107,000 patients, provides 20% of the City’s inpatient care, psychiatric emergency and inpatient services, and full-scope ambulatory primary and specialty care.