Dr. Lindsay Mazotti, Sutter Health’s inaugural Chief Medical Officer of Medical Education and Science, has been named one of Reuters’ Trailblazing Women in Healthcare for 2025. This accolade highlights not only her contributions as a practicing physician in her own right, but her expertise in the science behind effective medical education.
In her role at Sutter Health, Dr. Mazotti oversees the growth and development of graduate medical education and research, ultimately aiming to enhance access to high-quality healthcare for the 3.5 million patients served by Sutter Health in one of the most innovative and culturally rich regions of the country. The integrated healthcare system remains on pace to become one of the largest community-based healthcare training institutions in Northern California. Sutter is in the midst of expanding its graduate medical education footprint to train 1,000 resident and fellow physicians by 2030.
Reflecting on her career, Dr. Mazotti shared, “Although I come from a family of teachers, from an early age, I knew I wanted to be a doctor. It wasn’t until medical school that I discovered the world of medical education—the science and strategy behind how we train physicians. That realization set me on a path not only to practice medicine but also to innovate how we educate and prepare future doctors.”
Dr. Mazotti’s research interests focus on the alignment between graduate medical education outcomes, systems-based practice and health systems science. She holds a degree in human biology from Stanford University and completed her MD and residency in internal medicine at UC San Francisco.
Dr. Mazotti joined Sutter Health in early 2024, bringing extensive experience from her previous roles at Kaiser Permanente’s Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and East Bay Medical Center. As a founding faculty member and assistant dean for clinical education at KPSOM, she was instrumental in shaping the medical school’s curriculum. Concurrently, she served as the assistant physician-in-chief for education and development at East Bay Medical Center, overseeing the medical education continuum.
