Michele Bosworth, MD
Principal
Health Management Associates
Austin, TX
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A physician leader dedicated to collaboration and strategic approaches to healthcare solutions, Michele Bosworth, MD, is an academic innovator and clinical expert. She joins HMA after serving in various leadership positions with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (UTHSCT).
She previously served as executive director of the UTHSCT Center for Population Health, Analytics, and Quality Advancement. While there, she achieved maximum financial performance of 1115 Waivers, oversaw externally funded programs, and aligned academic, clinical and community initiatives.
Additionally, Dr. Bosworth is also the former chief quality and patient safety officer with UTHSCT where she led strategic councils and committees as well as developed and deployed safety and effectiveness programs. As chief medical information officer with UTHSCT, she championed electronic health records and information technology implementations as well as cultivated a safety-focused culture of optimization within the organization.
As a practicing physician, she worked in the UTHSCT Family Medicine Residency Program as core faculty and became the program’s clinic director. She completed her family medicine residency training at Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in Asheville, N.C., where she was asked to develop and operate MAHEC’s first satellite clinic upon graduation. As such, Dr. Bosworth served as the founding medical director for MAHEC’s Cane Creek Family Health Center in Fairview, N.C., where she practiced full-spectrum family medicine while maintaining a teaching faculty presence in the MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program.
She earned a Medical Doctorate at West Virginia School of Medicine in Morgantown, W.V., as well as a bachelor’s degree in biology from West Virginia University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a diplomat of the American Board of Preventive Medicine in clinical informatics, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.