Dr. Sudat oversees the scientific, strategic, and operational direction of the Office of Academic Support, with the goal of ensuring high-quality scholarly activity support for faculty, fellows, and residents across the Sutter system. She is also a collaborating Senior Scientist with the Center for Health Systems Research (CHSR). Over her 20-year career at Sutter Health, Dr. Sudat has developed methods for accessing, extracting, and analyzing complex health data from multi-source electronic health records (EHRs) for clinical and observational research. She provides statistical consultation and support to Sutter researchers and leads projects using large EHR datasets to address questions and challenges facing healthcare delivery and outcomes. Dr. Sudat completed graduate training in Biostatistics at the University of California at Berkeley, where she focused on risk prediction and semi-parametric methods for estimation in the context of causal inference and observational health data.