Katherine Meese
Board Member | CEO Humargin Group, Award Winning Researcher & Author, Humargin Group
Belmont Collaborative for Health Systems Innovation
Biography
With fifteen years of experience in healthcare management, leadership and research, Dr. Meese is an award-winning scholar and author in organizational behavior, well-being, and leadership. Most importantly, she is on a mission to rehumanize the work of healthcare by using science to help leaders keep their people and keep them well. She currently serves as the CEO of HUmargin group, which takes a data-driven, scientific approach to help healthcare organizations solve their complex human challenges.
Dr. Meese has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and has served as an evaluator on multi-million dollar grants. She has co-authored two textbooks on organizational behavior in healthcare that are used in over 160 schools across the country, as well as The Human Margin: Building the Foundations of Trust with Quint Studer.
Dr. Meese also has deep experience in curriculum design and teaches and mentors graduate, doctoral and executive students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Health Services Administration, home to the U.S. News and World Report #1 ranked MSHA program.
Dr. Meese has a B.B.A from Texas A&M, an MPH from the University of Texas Health Science Center, and a PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She lives in the Nashville, TN area with her husband and two children.