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Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association awards prestigious Alumni Kissick Scholarship to second year MBA students Chip Chambers and Sara Meadow
The Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association (WHCMAA) recently chose Chip Chambers and Sara Meadow, Class of 2025 Wharton MBA students, for its prestigious $11,500 Alumni Kissick Scholarship. The scholarship is named after William Kissick, MD, PhD, who played an integral role in developing the Wharton HCM program and had been deeply involved at the national level as one of the pioneers of the Medicare program. The scholarship is meant for a deserving healthcare MBA student who exemplifies what Bill Kissick stood for: being socially responsible, having an insatiable quest for knowledge, and engaging others in a common cause. Chip and Sara’s background and experience fit this description very well. The scholarship is used to help defray the tuition expenses to Wharton.
Chip Chambers
MD/MBA student, The Wharton School, Class of 2025
2024 Alumni Kissick Scholarship recipient
In acceptance of the Scholarship Award Chip said: “It’s a privilege to stand in a long line of people who, in following Dr. Kissick’s lead, have bridged disciplines and worked towards making the healthcare system better for everyone, especially those not well served by it currently. Now, I get to pick up that banner and stand on their shoulders and hope to follow Dr. Kissick’s legacy specifically by improving our delivery of primary care."
Chip’s background:
Chip graduated from the University of Georgia with a BS in Biology and BA in Economics with a minor in Health Policy and Management along with Certificates in Leadership and Interdisciplinary Writing. Chip has invested heavily across many aspects of our healthcare system, including volunteering at Mercy Health Center while a Georgia undergraduate, summer work at the Greater NY Hospital Association, Emory Healthcare, and as an Intern with Penn’s Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety (CHIPS).
Chip is spending this summer working on the population health team at Hopscotch Primary Care, a rural value-based primary care startup providing high quality advanced primary care to rural populations that have suffered poor healthcare access.
After graduation, he is pursuing a residency in Family Medicine, where he will train to be a rural primary care provider who cares for both systems and individual people, with an eye toward pushing the U.S. healthcare system toward better population health, lower cost, and restoring joy to healthcare.
Sara Meadow
MBA student, The Wharton School, Class of 2025
2024 Alumni Kissick Scholarship recipient
In acceptance of the Scholarship Award Sara said: “I'm incredibly excited and thankful to be selected for this scholarship. I'm optimistic about the ability of policy to drive positive change in the healthcare industry, and I hope to incorporate this perspective throughout my career.”
Sara’s background:
Sara graduated from Rice University with degrees in Political Science and Policy Studies and a certificate in Civic Leadership. Prior to Wharton, Sara started her career at Deloitte Consulting where she worked on a variety of strategy and operations projects across payers and providers with a focus on value based care and State DOH-related engagements. She also led a local chapter of Inspire, a nonprofit consulting group, and while at Rice, she led a year-long project with the Houston Food Bank to establish their food prescription program.
Sara will spend the summer with the Growth Strategy team at Oshi Health, a series B startup focused on providing whole person care for patients with digestive disorders. In this role, Sara will work on optimizing the scheduling and care delivery across Oshi's whole person care model with the goal of improving clinical outcomes and providing life changing care for patients.
After Wharton, Sara plans to return to Deloitte and focus on driving forward new markets made possible by health policy changes and an increased focus on State DOH factors.