Stephen Lockhart, M.D., Ph.D., directs the quality and safety of Sutter’s patient care and oversees the research and education that drives Sutter Health’s innovation and healthcare advancement. Dr. Lockhart brings 30 years of impressive experience to Sutter Health’s integrated network — hospital administrator, board-certified anesthesiologist, university professor, published author and nationally recognized environmental steward and humanitarian.
Dr. Lockhart is dedicated to understanding and addressing health equity as a key measure of healthcare quality. Most recently, he led the development and implementation of Sutter’s Health Equity Index, a groundbreaking tool that uses real-time health system data and external statistics to identify healthcare disparities and address their underlying causes.
Dr. Lockhart was named in 2019 to the California Surgeon General’s Advisory Council focused on the study of adverse childhood experiences (ACES). Dr. Lockhart also served on Gov. Brown’s Advisory Committee on Precision Medicine as part of California’s continued effort to use advanced computing and technology to better understand, treat and prevent disease. He was featured by Becker's Healthcare in 2020 on their list of the "100 hospital and health system chief medical officers to know."
He serves on the boards of the ECRI Institute, REI, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and is chairman of Parks California. A Rhodes scholar, Dr. Lockhart earned his master’s in economics at Oxford University and received his medical and doctoral degrees from Cornell University.
