Marijka Grey, MD, MBA, FACP

Director

As CommonSpirit Health’s System VP for Ambulatory Transformation and Innovation, Dr. Marijka Grey is an avid pursuer of healthcare’s quintuple aim: better care, better outcomes, lower cost, health equity, and a purposeful, joyful workplace. She leads a team of innovators who work on advancing the physical environment of care and refining both clinical and administrative workflows, at times leveraging cutting edge technology, to make the day-to-day care of patients better for everyone involved.

A synergist, Dr. Grey brings her unique skill of being able to unite disparate groups to provide an exceptional outcome to all areas of her work. She led the clinical rollout of virtual visits during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic across CommonSpirit’s 21 states, launching in 21 days and resulting in over 2.7 million ambulatory virtual visits so far since the start of the pandemic.

She has always had a passion for ambulatory leadership, starting first as a medical informaticist, rolling out ambulatory EHRs in the early to mid-2000s, followed by leading healthcare quality at her organization as an associate medical director, and eventually leading a group of 850 physicians and advanced practice providers across 2 states and 3 counties as the regional medical director for WellSpan Health. She then took a role with CHI Memorial in Chattanooga, TN, as president of the CHI Memorial Medical Group, a team of approximately 200 physicians, before being recruited to her current role with CommonSpirit, CHI’s parent company. With a background in systems transformation, informatics, medical group leadership, and healthcare quality, she notes that a common thread needed to fundamentally change U.S. health care is the involvement of physician and advanced practice provider leaders to help design those changes to ensure sustainability.

She graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed her residency in internal medicine. She has achieved the distinction of fellow of the American College of Physicians and obtained her M.B.A. from the Richard J. Bolte School of Business at Mount Saint Mary’s University. Her passion for leadership extends to the community, where she is currently serving as president of the Chattanooga Hamilton County Medical Society and can also be found mentoring young healthcare professionals as they begin their journeys into management