Karen Nitkin

Date: 02/04/2019

Kimberlee Sherbrooke, chief operating officer for the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians and vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has joined the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) board of directors. Her yearlong appointment began Jan. 1.

“I value the unique opportunity AMGA provides to learn from integrated health systems and from my fellow academic practices,” says Sherbrooke, one of four new members of AMGA’s 11-person board. 

AMGA, with more than 175,000 physicians in its member organizations, was founded in 1950 as the American Association of Medical Clinics. It became the American Medical Group Association in 2016 and added the tagline “Advancing High Performing Health” to better reflect its work promoting value-driven, patient-centered care. 

“AMGA’s board represents the nation’s highest-performing medical groups and integrated systems of care, who understand how optimizing care delivery improves patient outcomes and supports a value-based care system,” says Jerry Penso, AMGA president and chief executive officer. The new board members’ “expertise will be instrumental to AMGA in its mission to help members improve population health, lower costs and improve care quality,” Penso says.

AMGA’s new board appointments and executive committee are as follows.

Executive Committee:

• Christopher Sclafani (Chair), Chief Operating Officer, CareMount Medical
• Grace Emerson Terrell (Chair-Elect), Chief Executive Officer, Envision Genomics; General Internist, Wake Forest Baptist Health
• Aric Sharp (Secretary), Managing Director, Enterprise and Government Ventures, UnityPoint Health
• Tim Weir (Treasurer), Chief Executive Officer, Olmsted Medical Center
•  J. Stephen Jones (At Large Member), President and Chief Executive Officer, Inova
• Ashok Rai (Immediate Past Chair), President and Chief Executive Officer,, Prevea Health
• Jerry Penso (AMGA President and Chief Executive Officer). President and Chief Executive Officer, AMGA

Board Appointments:

• Carol Brockmiller. Chief Executive Officer, Quincy Medical Group
•  Richard Isaacs, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director,, Permanente Medical Group; President and Chief Executive Officer,Mid‐Atlantic Permanente Medical Group
• Kimberlee Sherbrooke, Vice President, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Chief Operating Officer, Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians
• Mary Jo Williamson, Vice Chair, Administration, Mayo Clinic