Chief Medical Officer

Sutter Medical Group

Dr. Valenzuela is the Chief Medical Officer for Sutter Medical Group of the Redwoods in Santa Rosa, California which is comprised of 125multi-specialty providers practicing throughout Sonoma County. He’s given national and international presentations on topics related to change management, healthcare innovation and physician leadership development. Peter’s been recognized twice by the Medical Group Management Association(MGMA) with the Harwick Innovation Award for developing innovative solutions that enhance the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and the Physician Executive of the Year Award for exhibiting leadership deemed outstanding to achieve exceptional medical group performance. In his spare time, Dr. Valenzuela is a medical satirist with a web comic called Doc-Related (www.doc-related.com) that chronicles the hilarious lives of clinicians, staff and administrators working within atypicalU.S. health system.