Allison Wierda Suttle, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Office, Sanford Health

Allison Wierda Suttle was a natural fit for a career in medicine. The daughter of a Sioux Falls radiologist, she grew up watching her father “read films in the basement of Sioux Valley Hospital.” At 18, she left South Dakota for Brown University then gradually worked her way back westward, earning her MD at Northwestern in Chicago and staying in the city for her residency.