Alexis Meredith, MD
North Kansas City Hospital has named Alexis Meredith, MD, medical staff president. She began her one-year term on July 1. In this role, Dr. Meredith chairs the Medical Executive Committee, provides leadership to her colleagues and acts as a liaison between the medical staff and the hospital’s administration.
Dr. Meredith has been a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician with NKCH and Meritas Health Pulmonary Medicine since 2006. She has served NKCH in various capacities, including as a member of the Critical Care and Trauma subcommittees. She then was a member of the Medicine Advisory; Pharmacy and Therapeutics, for which she was chair; and Executive committees.
“Working with my physician colleagues on NKCH committees has allowed me to be involved in decision-making that affects our physicians and staff, but it also has given me the opportunity to impact how we provide the very best in patient care,” Dr. Meredith said. “It was a natural step for me to become more involved as medical staff president. I look forward to not only advocating on behalf of our physicians but also bringing about more relationship-building for our physicians, which suffered due to needed COVID-19 restrictions.”
She recognizes the organization’s proactive response to COVID provided a foundation for what may lie ahead regarding COVID. “We put many systems in place to protect physicians, staff and patients while providing quality patient care,” Dr. Meredith said. “Our physicians and staff have shown we can rise to meet any challenges that may be brought before us.”
Dr. Meredith earned her medical degree and completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Triple board-certified — in critical care medicine, internal medicine and pulmonary medicine — she is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Meredith succeeds Scott Kujath, MD, FACS, a vascular surgeon with the Midwest Aortic and Vascular Institute.