Susan Dentzer
Susan Dentzer an American health care and health policy analyst, commentator, and journalist. She is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University, located in Washington, DC. She was formerly president and chief executive officer of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI). Prior to NEHI she served as the senior policy adviser for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was the editor-in-chief of the journal "Health Affairs". Background. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) and the  Council on Foreign Relations. She is a former health correspondent for the News Hour with Jim Lehrer and correspondent and columnist for U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, class of 1977, and a member of the Nieman Fellowship class of 1987. She served on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 1993 to 2004. Early life. In 1973, she became one of the first women to attend Dartmouth. In 1993 she was the first alumna to be nominated to the board of trustees in an alumni election, and in 2001 she became  the first alumna to chair the board of trustees. She is now a trustee emerita at Dartmouth. Career. In May 2008 Dentzer joined Health Affairs, a journal on health policy in the US and internationally, until 2013. In 1998 Dentzer joined "The NewsHour" serving as its on-air health correspondent for ten years and leading the show's award-winning unit covering health care and health policy. Before joining "The NewsHour", Dentzer served from 1987 to 1997 as chief economics correspondent and economics columnist for U.S. News & World Report. Prior to her role at U.S. News, Dentzer was at Newsweek  reporting on business news as a senior writer. Dentzer's 2015 PBS documentary Reinventing American Healthcare covered the Geisinger Health System.