2021 Barnhardt Seminar on Ethics: Susan DeVore
Susan DeVore ’81 is the CEO of Premier with approximately 30 years of experience. DeVore’s tenure with Premier has centered on driving innovation in healthcare and leading the industry through profound change by engaging stakeholders to co-develop solutions that support high-quality, efficient, and sustainable care delivery models.
DeVore is an industry-leading thinker who has consistently been named multiple times to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People and Top 25 Women in Healthcare lists. She is the recipient of the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2018 Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award, was named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s 2017 100 Great Healthcare Leaders to Know, and was recognized as a 2016 UNC Charlotte Distinguished Alumnus.
DeVore is a member of the Board of Directors, the Audit Committee, and Risk and Finance Committee of Unum Group, a NYSE-listed company. She is a member of the Board of Directors, the Finance and Quality and Safety Committees of AdventHealth. DeVore is also a member of the Board of Directors or member of non-profit and state-based organizations, including the Healthcare Leadership Council, the Coalition to Protect America’s Healthcare, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value, and Science Driven Healthcare. She is a graduate of UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business and currently serves on the University’s Board of Trustees.
Under DeVore’s leadership, Premier has been named as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the past 13 years, received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and earned the Best in KLAS title for Overall Healthcare Management Consulting.