Suzanne Schwimmer has been active in commercial real estate leasing for the entire current decade.  Ms. Schwimmer has successfully concluded leases and sales for major not-for-profit organizations, health care providers,  other  NGO organizations, and legal and educational providers, among others.

Prior to that, Ms Schwimmer was an active urban planner in the field of Health Care and Urban Systems.  In Healthcare, she was involved in strategies and systems for healthcare cost containment and managed care for over 25 years.  In Urban Planning, she consulted to government on the planning for and distribution of services and facilities. 

Always focussed on her clients' bottom lines,  she operated a  consulting company that specialized in business planning, cost analysis and  operations re-engineering for performance-driven systems.

Suzanne Schwimmer has a number of impressive "firsts" in her background.Her analysis of Federal health insurance was the basis of the New York City mayoral lobbying position. She developed the first Medicaid capitation contract in the early '70s and a variety of programs to move patients to less expensive, more appropriate levels of care. 

She was instrumental in the New York City effort to end long-term stays of patients in acute care and tertiary settings.  In Buffalo, NY, she served the Mayor as an advisor on revenue sharing spending for health, addiction, and welfare programs.

Schwimmer has also held senior academic positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo, research academic positions at State University College at Buffalo, and Cornell University Medical College, and adjunct positions at New York University.  She is credited with developing the first computerized flight simulator to train Vietnam-era fighter pilots and working on the theoretical underpinnings of modern satellite navigation systems and magnetohydrodynamics.

Among her local government positions, Schwimmer was a principal internal management consultant in the billion dollar New York City's health superagency, Health Services Administration for over four years during which she set a record of both achievement and program firsts. 

Before entering the health care field, Schwimmer performed pioneering think tank strategic research and development in aerospace, defense, and information technology for the RAND Corporation, System Development Corporation, and IBM.  

Schwimmer is a graduate of the City College of New York and has done graduate work in mathematics and organizational psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the State University of New York at Buffalo.  She has authored over 50 articles, book chapters, reports, and presentations.