Dr. Martin Brotman, Gastroenterologist And Former Cpmc President, Dies At Age 81 Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Dr. Martin Brotman, former president and CEO of California Pacific Medical Center, died Dec. 20, at age 81. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for 53 years, Brotman was the driving force behind the creation of Sutter Health's new one-million-square-foot Van Ness campus hospital and adjacent medical building, which opened in 2019. Born on June 26, 1939, in Winnipeg, Canada, to Helen and Israel Brotman, Martin Brotman met Farron Stern, at the age ...