Susan (Sue) Sedory, M.A., CAE, is a retired chief executive who dedicated her 40-year career to improving health care through research and organizational leadership working in association, corporate and federal government sectors.
Most recently, Ms. Sedory served as the Executive Director and CEO of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the national medical society representing emergency medicine. Recruited and hired in a completely virtual format, Ms. Sedory took the helm at ACEP as the COVID pandemic accelerated in July 2020 and deftly adapted ACEP staff and strategy to meet member needs in unpredictable times. Under her direction, ACEP shifted to and from virtual meetings, initiated work-from-home protocols and began a comprehensive technology overhaul, all while supporting emergency medicine at its time of greatest need. Ms. Sedory sharpened ACEP’s focus by establishing a member-centric strategic plan and steered ACEP through contentious legislative and policy battles, including efforts to fix the flawed implementation of the surprise billing law, as well as campaigns to prioritize emergency physician leadership when defining scope of practice lanes of medical authority.
Ms. Sedory previously served as the Executive Director of the Society of Interventional Radiology and in various leadership roles at the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. She started her career as a researcher at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health and a health services researcher with The MEDSTAT Group.
In retirement, Sue splits her time between Washington and Texas, unless traveling with her husband or to visit their four grown children and four grand children.