Sarah Van Orman, MD, MMM, FACHA

2025 RECIPIENT

ACHA Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Van Orman has spent her professional career as a college health physician, university health services administrator, and campus chief health officer. She is currently the Vice President for Campus Health and the Chief Health Officer of the University of Southern California, where she is also a clinical professor of family medicine in the Keck School of Medicine. Her administrative interests include health equity in student populations and its connection to student educational outcomes; using public health models to improve student well-being; and student health insurance.

Dr. Van Orman is a past president of ACHA and currently chairs the ACHA Data and Research Strategy Committee. She is the 2020 recipient of the ACHA Edward Hitchcock Award for Outstanding Contributions in College Health, an author of numerous articles and book chapters on college health, and a frequent media commentator on campus health. Dr. Van Orman earned an undergraduate degree in physics from Carleton College (MN) and her MD degree from the Mayo Clinic (MN). Her residency training was at the University of Chicago in combined internal medicine and pediatrics. She is board-certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics and earned a Master of Medical Management (MMM) degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College Health Association.