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Join us at ETEC in person or virtually on Friday, October 18th at 7:30am to hear from Jeremy Biggs, the President and Chief Administrative Officer, from Methodist Medical Center Organization AND Dr. James Schindler, the Program Director for the Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program. Their bios are below.

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Jeremy Biggs 
President and Chief Administrative Officer
Methodist Medical Center

Jeremy Biggs currently serves as the President and Chief Administrative Officer for Methodist Medical Center, located in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Before assuming the role at Methodist, Biggs previously served as president and Chief Administrative Officer of Cumberland Medical Center from 2014 – 2016, also a Covenant Health member hospital.  After joining Covenant Health in 2011, Biggs was named president and Chief Administrative Officer of Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System in Morristown and later served as interim Chief Administrative Officer of Thompson Cancer Survival Center. 

During his tenure at Methodist Medical Center, Biggs has helped lead the hospital to a number of significant accomplishments including the deployment of a new electronic health record system, renovations to all patient units, implementation of medical and nurse residency programs as well as the launch of a new family medicine residency program that is now helping train and develop future physicians to meet the growing primary care needs in our region.    Under his leadership, the hospital has also received numerous accolades from organizations such as Leapfrog, Healthgrades, US News & World Report, American Heart Association and IBM Watson.   Now in its 80th year, Methodist serves a population of approximately 200,000 citizens.

Biggs is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, which presented him with an “Early Career Healthcare Executive” Regent’s Award. He is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and East Tennessee Healthcare Executives, serving as president of that organization in 2007. He was named to the Greater Knoxville Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” leadership list in 2008, and was recognized in a Becker’s Hospital Review article, “10 Hospital CEOs 40 and Younger.” He serves on several community boards, including Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce and Emory Valley Center. Originally from Oak Ridge, Biggs earned a master’s degree in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee. 

“One of the main reasons I chose to work at Covenant Health was the dedicated team of professionals that support a culture of excellence and patient centered care,” said Biggs. “I feel privileged to be giving back to my hometown roots and proud to be able to serve through my role here at Methodist.” 

James Schindler 
Program Director
Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program 

James Schindler, MD, MPH, serves as the program director for the Methodist Family Medicine Residency program in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He has served patients as a primary care physician in East Tennessee for more than 20 years.

Dr. Schindler grew up in a small North Dakota town and attended the University of North Dakota School of Medicine for basic sciences, earning his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. After a residency in northern California, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, receiving his Masters of Public Health in maternal and child health. 

Dr. Schindler served as the medical director for Robert Wood Johnson Healthcare for the Homeless program in Denver and Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma, Washington before returning to Houston to direct the Division of Urban Family Medicine for UT-Houston School of Medicine. He championed efforts to plant family practice residents and faculty throughout underserved communities in Houston and directed interdisciplinary Primary Care fellowship for the UT Health Sciences Center. Dr. Schindler then returned to Baylor as Vice Chairman of Clinical Affairs for the Department of Family and Community Medicine, replicating the UT-Houston program. He served as Chief of Service for the Ben Taub Hospital and interim residency director during that time. He moved to East Tennessee to raise children and practice primary care in Morristown, Tennessee before being named founding program director for the MMC Family Medicine Residency.