Dr. Lindsay Mazotti, Sutter Health’s chief medical officer of medical education and science, has been awarded the 2025 Adarsh S. Mahal, M.D., Access to Health Care and Disparities Award by Physicians for a Healthy California. The award honors individuals and organizations making significant strides in improving access to care across the state.
A transformative leader in medical education, Mazotti is playing a pivotal role in addressing California’s physician shortage. As Sutter’s inaugural Chief Medical Officer of Medical Education and Science, she is a driving force behind efforts to build the largest community-based physician training program in California by 2026.
Sutter Health is rapidly expanding its GME footprint to 500+ residents and fellows for 2025-26 across 30 accredited programs — with plans to reach nearly 1,000 trainees by 2030. By helping make it possible for additional highly trained physicians to enter the workforce, Mazotti ensures more patients, including in underserved regions, have access to quality care in a sustainable healthcare infrastructure.
Many residents and fellows choose to remain where they train and, in 2024, 54% of Sutter Health’s graduating residents stayed within the system. Others continued practicing in California, ensuring the state retains highly skilled physicians to meet growing demands for care. These programs are designed to meet clinical needs in specialties like internal medicine, family medicine, emergency medicine and surgery — areas critical to expanding care capacity.
Part of Mazotti’s role is the integration of research and medical education, helping ensure that residents and fellows are equipped with the latest knowledge, evidence-based practices and hands-on experience that directly translate into improved outcomes. She has advanced Sutter’s research mission by creating an Office of Academic Support to bolster learners’ engagement in impactful studies. Sutter Health’s researchers run clinical trials, conduct studies and publish hundreds of papers per year on groundbreaking new tools, treatments and care delivery systems.
A practicing physician and nationally recognized leader in medical education, Mazotti’s work is making it possible for more Californians — including those in underserved regions — to get the care they need, today and in the years ahead.
