Ms. Ross serves as the executive vice president, chief strategy and growth officer at UChicago Medicine, overseeing its “Elevate 2035” strategic plan, which integrates the clinical enterprise, school of medicine and research division. Under her leadership, UChicago Medicine has nearly doubled its revenue from $2.4 billion to $4.6 billion and expanded significantly through strategic initiatives. She played a key role in the UChicago Medicine-Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth joint venture, acquiring four hospitals and 50 outpatient locations in Chicago’s western suburbs, as well as in establishing Chicago’s first freestanding cancer care and research pavilion and a 130,000-square-foot micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana. Ms. Ross led efforts that quadrupled the number of U.S. News & World Report-ranked specialty programs, increased high-acuity volumes 27%, and oversaw the recruitment of 500 physicians in two years. Before assuming her current role, Ms. Ross served as the system’s senior vice president of strategic planning and service lines from 2020-23 and was the system’s vice president of strategic planning from 2017-20.
