Dr. Jennifer Sullivan

July 21. Dr. Jennifer Sullivan, the enterprise senior vice president of strategic operations for Atrium Health and a practicing pediatric emergency room physician, has been chosen for an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship.

She will join 20 other senior health care leaders who will spend the next two years examining new approaches to improve the health and well-being of people living in the US.

“Throughout my career, I’ve been fortunate to be in a position to help shape positive change in public health in service to others,” said Sullivan, who prior to joining Atrium Health last year served as the cabinet-level secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration.

At Atrium Health, she sets the strategic direction for the system’s clinical specialties across 40 hospitals and more than 1,400 provider locations in multiple states.

The Health Innovators Fellowship will spend four weeks over the course of the next two years exploring their leadership, core values, desired legacies and vision for the health care system. Each fellow commits to launching a leadership venture that will stretch and challenge them and have a positive and lasting impact on health care.