Susan DeVore is president and CEO of Premier, Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of approximately 3,000 U.S. hospitals and approximately 110,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With approximately 30 years of experience, DeVore is an industry-leading thinker who has been named to Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and Top 25 Women in Healthcare lists. She serves on the board of directors for American Diversified Reinsurance Ltd., National Center for Healthcare Leadership, Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care, and the Medicare Rights Center. She is an executive committee member of the Healthcare Leadership Council and Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. DeVore is also a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Value and Science Driven Health Care. Under DeVore's leadership, Premier has built an industry-leading code of ethics, been named seven times as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere, won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, been named to InformationWeek's 500 top technology innovators in the nation four years running and won IBM's CTO innovation award for advanced analytics in healthcare. DeVore obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Master of Management degree from McGill University.