New Leaders Step Up to Succeed Dr. Subhi Ali, Dr. John Harris, and Randy Ratliff, Esq.
Three new volunteer leaders have joined the ranks of the TMF Board of Directors and the Professionals Health Quality Improvement Committee (PHQIC).
“We are so pleased to welcome Maria Jernigan and Beth Ratliff to our Board of Directors, and Dr. Matthew Mabie as a member of our clinical oversight committee, the PHQIC,” said TMF Executive Director Jennifer Rainwater. “At the same time, we want to thank our outgoing leaders, TMF Board members Dr. Subhi Ali and Randy Ratliff, and departing PHQIC member Dr. John Harris. They each have served with distinction and excellence, and we are deeply grateful to them for helping to propel our mission forward.”
NEW FACES
Maria Jernigan, RD, a native of East Tennessee, succeeds Lorraine Johnson, RN, as the Tennessee Medical Association Alliance (TMAA) representative to the TMF Board. Maria and husband Dr. Tom Jernigan met during his internal medicine residency – she was working as a registered dietician at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. A past president of the Knoxville Academy of Medicine Alliance, Maria remains on the KAMA Board of Directors and on its Executive Board as Communications Director-Elect.
Beth Ratliff, MBA, of Nashville, is chief operating officer of Premise Health, the nation’s leading direct healthcare organization, where she oversees operations delivering primary care, behavioral health, occupational health, pharmacy, virtual care, and other services across more than 900 locations nationwide. A physical therapist by training, she has particular interests in clinical quality, behavioral health, healthcare access, and creating systems that help people receive the care and support they need.
Beth is open about being in long-term recovery and speaks on behalf of the National Recovery Friendly Workplace Institute, most recently at the White House in September for an event hosted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy. She is a Nashville Health Care Council Fellow and Alumni Advisory Board member, a member of C200, and a former member of the Impact100 Nashville Advisory Board. The wife of outgoing TMF Board member Randy Ratliff, Beth offers both a healthcare executive and consumer perspective to issues involving recovery, stigma, workplace support, access to care, and clinical quality.
Matthew Mabie, MD, brings his personal recovery experience to the PHQIC as a 2021 graduate of the TMF Professionals Health Program. He also currently serves as a leader of the Memphis Caduceus Group, a peer support group for TMF-PHP participants, stating he was honored and humbled by the role and felt it would “allow me to give back some of what physicians already in recovery had so freely given to me.”
Dr. Mabie specializes in adult pulmonary and critical care medicine in private practice, while simultaneously serving as a teaching attending for fellows, residents, and medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. In addition, he chairs UTHSC’s critical care division and serves on the peer review, credentials, medical executive, pharmacy and therapeutics, and antibiotic stewardship committees.
TERMS OF SERVICE
Each of these new volunteer leaders will serve a three-year term. For more information, contact Jennifer Rainwater at jenniferr@e-tmf.org.