Susan Lehrman has been named to head the Graduate Management Institute, it was announced by President Roger Hull.
Lehrman has been a faculty member of GMI since 1993, teaching courses in management and
health care administration. Most recently, she served as associate director of the
Graduate Management Institute. She succeeds Joseph Zolner '76, who has accepted a
position at Harvard University.
Lehrman earned her bachelor's from Oregon State University, and her master's
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Since coming to Union, she has been principal investigator for five federal- and
state-funded grants examining AIDS services in New York State. She has served as a
consultant to the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute and has been a
consultant to the Mayor's Office of New York City, assisting in the development of
the City's strategic plan for providing HIV/AIDS services. She has published the
results of her research in the nation's top health services and policy research
journals, including Health Services Research and Inquiry.
Before joining Union, she held executive positions for over 10 years with Seton Health
Systems, part of the largest not-for-profit health care chain in the U.S.