Susan Dentzer

Susan Dentzer is 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 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.

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.