VISN 12 - VA Great Lakes Health Care System
VA Great Lakes Health Care System Announces New Chief Medical Officer: Gregg Meekins, MD
April 25, 2022
Victoria Brahm, Network Director, Veteran Integrated Service Network (VISN) 12, is pleased to announce that Gregg Meekins, M.D., has been selected as the new VISN 12 Chief Medical Officer, effective April 24, 2022.
Meekins offers the combination of broad-based experience in inpatient and outpatient clinical care, educational program leadership, and clinical administrative leadership. He earned his B.S. from Seattle University and his M.D. from Tulane University. Dr. Meekins performed his residency in Neurology at the University of Washington and fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology/Neuromuscular Diseases at the University of Utah. He completed a Senior Executive Fellowship with Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government and has held academic appointments as an Associate Professor of Neurology with the University of Minnesota and University of Washington Schools of Medicine. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) with added subspecialty qualifications in Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Diseases.
Prior to coming to the VA Great Lakes Health Care System, Meekins served as the Chief of Staff at the Tomah VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin, where he was responsible for all clinical operations and associated outcome metrics for a Level 3 medical center with four affiliated Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) servicing 27,000 Veterans of central and western Wisconsin as well as portions of southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa. Meekins also served as the Section Chief of Neurology at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, where he was responsible for clinical operations related to provision of Neurology Services for a Level 1A medical center with 13 affiliated CBOCs servicing 108,000 Veterans of Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and northern Iowa. Meekins brings a balance of activities in research, education, and clinical care that is unique and will be an asset to VISN 12.
The VA Great Lakes Health Care System, VISN 12, with its eight medical centers, 40 outpatient clinics, eight community living centers, and seven mental health residential rehabilitation treatment centers offers health care services to almost 800,000 Veterans who reside within its four-state (Illinois, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin, and Northwest Indiana) area. VISN 12 also has the country’s first fully-integrated Veterans Administration and Department of Defense medical facility, the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center.
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