Bio

Dr. Freeman has been a healthcare executive and educator for 25 years, with a focus on healthcare delivery and population health. She is currently the President of Creative HealthCare Initiatives, LLC, focused on addressing challenges in healthcare through population health strategies, transformative change, education, and innovation. A faculty member of the American College of Physician Leadership, she develops and teaches courses in strategic planning for physician executive graduate degree programs.

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 Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. She holds a Master of Science degree in Preventive and Administration Medicine from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Freeman is a Fellow of the American Association of Physician Leadership and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

Expertise

Prior to her recent move to Arizona, Dr. Freeman was Provost and Senior Vice President, and the Robert C. and Naomi T. Borwell Presidential Professor, at Rush University in Chicago where she served as the chief operating officer of the university. Dr. Freeman was a co-founder and co-director of the Rush Institute for Health Equity. She also initiated the office of human centered design. Dr. Freeman served previously as the CMO, 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. Under Dr. Freeman’s leadership, Temple was the recipient of several grants to improve health care in North Philadelphia. Dr. Freeman is a reviewer for Population Health Management and the Journal of HealthCare Quality.