Julie Ann Freischlag (born 1955) is an American vascular surgeon and current CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, Freischlag was named chief academic officer of Atrium Health, Inc., and appointed the President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons.
[7] As the first female chief of the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHU), Nita Ahuja said that this let her know it was "OK to be a mom.
[11] Freischlag left JHU in 2014 to become vice chancellor for human health sciences and dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine, replacing Claire Pomeroy.
[14] Freischlag's stay at UC Davis was short-lived, however, as she soon left to become the Chief Executive Officer of the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
[16] In recognition of her academic accomplishments, she was inducted into the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh[17] and named one of the Physician Leaders to Know by Becker's Hospital Review.
[18] During the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, Freischlag was named chief academic officer of Atrium Health, Inc., and appointed the President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons.