Completing an extensive national search, Ascension Saint Thomas has tapped physician leader Shubhada Jagasia, MD, MMHC, as president and CEO of Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital, Midtown and West campuses.

Offering nearly 30 years of clinical and healthcare administration experience, Jagasia most recently served as chief of staff for the Adult Hospital and Ambulatory Clinics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. There, she successfully led the COVID service line as part of the pandemic response, created an innovative discharge and transitions program, and developed a patient and caregiver-centered end-of-life program. She also helped develop multiple new clinical programs, including a specialized service line catering to patients with high healthcare resources utilization. Her prior roles include medical director of the Eskind Diabetes Clinic and vice-chair of Clinical Affairs for the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt.

Jagasia moved to Tennessee in 1994 to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis after graduating from King Edward Memorial Medical College in Mumbai, India. She then relocated to Nashville for her internal medicine residency, which she completed on the Ascension Saint Thomas through the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She then continued her clinical training at Vanderbilt with a fellowship in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and also obtained a Master of Management in Health Care from the Owen Graduate School of Management.

She succeeds Fahad Tahir, who has been named to the role of system chief strategy officer for Ascension Saint Thomas.