Ms. Medearis advises clients, including private equity backed healthcare services companies, on merger and integration planning. She is currently working with a large county health agency to identify, formalize and implement new clinical and academic affiliations in their local market. Her recent integration clients include two large New England health systems working with a university to create a new academic medical center (AMC).

Previously at A&M, Ms. Medearis designed and implemented a faculty compensation program at an academic medical center in the Midwest. She has also performed qualitative and quantitative evaluations of Adult and Pediatric Medical Groups across the West Coast. Ms. Medearis served as the Interim CFO for a new entity focused on population health activities. She performed ongoing finance and accounting activities, worked to implement a new financial system, and built infrastructure to support the future of the entity.

Prior to that, Ms. Medearis worked with a large AMC to redesign and implement a new funds flow. She helped design new faculty compensation plans for more than 1,000 physicians across departments and supported the implementation of a new governance structure for sustainability. She partnered with senior academic and system leadership to ensure appropriate support and funding of graduate medical education.

On behalf of King County, Ms. Medearis conducted a comprehensive assessment of the University of Washington as the operator of Harborview Medical Center. She facilitated multiple stakeholder sessions to develop recommended contract changes/updates and advised the County Executive and council offices through the negotiation process.

Ms. Medearis earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brandeis University and a master’s degree in health administration from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.