Priya Cherukuru is a recognized healthcare planner and executive leader at Stanford Healthcare. As a certified land use planner (AICP) with more than 20+ years of experience in strategy and capital improvement planning, she is known for bringing creative, innovative, and consensus-based solutions for space needs in highly constrained and regulated hospitals and clinical environments. 

She currently leads the Facilities Planning and Design Department including facilities strategy and development of plans and initiatives with a construction budget of over $8 billion with programs planned for the next 20 years and covering a portfolio of over 5M square feet, 3 Hospitals over 170+ clinic sites, and 50 admin sites for its 20,000 employees, faculty, fellows, and residents. She has grown to become a valued and trusted leader across the enterprise and works closely with partners and peers in the School of Medicine, Stanford Medicine Children's Health, Stanford University and Stanford Medicine-Tri-Valley through a collaborative and governance-based model of influence and proactive planning 

Priya has a bachelor's in architecture, Masters in Urban and Regional Planning and is a certified planner with the American Planners Association (APA). Priya also serves on the City of Santa Clara's Planning Commission and was Chair of the City of Santa Clara, Planning Commission, Historical Landmarks Commission and the Architectural Site Approval Committee for County of Santa Clara. In her personal world, she tries to be a 'loving wife' dutiful mom and dog parent!