Bio
Ann Weinacker is the Senior Vice Chair of Medicine for Clinical Operations and she is the Chief Physician Executive of Stanford's Risk Management Department (The Risk Authority). She is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine and has been a full-time faculty member since 1999. Dr. Weinacker has extensive experience in SHC clinical and administrative leadership. She served as Chief of Staff from 2011-2014 after serving as Vice Chief of Staff from 2010-2011, and she was Associate Chief Medical Officer for Patient Care Services from 2015-2023. A strong advocate for patient centricity, Dr. Weinacker was appointed in November 2009 to be one of four leaders designated to actively design, guide and implement strategies to improve the patient experience at Stanford and served in that capacity until 2021. Her clinical work and leadership roles have been predominately in the ICU, and her research focus has been predicting lung transplant outcomes.
Dr. Weinacker began her career as a nurse and nurse anesthetist before completing her M.D. at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, in 1986. Her advanced training includes a pulmonary and critical care fellowship and a cardiovascular postdoctoral research fellowship, completed at the University of California, San Francisco in 1994. She has won teaching awards and is a member of AOA. Locally, she received the SHC Board of Hospital Director’s coveted Denise O’Leary Award for Clinical Excellence in 2008. More recently, she has been selected by her medical school alma mater as the 2026 recipient of their Distinguished Medical Alumni Award.
