Sue Schade has spent 40 years in healthcare information technology, including serving as Chief Information Officer for the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. In recent years, she has taken on interim CIO and CTO roles at Boston Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook Medicine, University Hospitals in Cleveland, and the University of Vermont Health Network, helping major health systems navigate technology transitions during critical periods. In 2014, she was named CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year.
Today, Sue is a Principal at StarBridge Advisors, where she provides consulting, coaching, and interim management to hospitals, and serves as an executive coach and mentor for the next generation of health IT leaders. She brings a rare inside view of how hospital systems actually adopt new technology, insight that helps First Ascent build tools clinicians and health systems will trust and use.