Katherine Stark has 17 years of experience in healthcare administration. She serves as Senior Director of Regional Ambulatory Services at Vanderbilt Health, responsible for operational and strategic oversight of over 75 clinics in Williamson, Maury, Coffee and Bedford counties. Prior to this role, Katherine was a stay-at-home mom for two years while her daughter attended both therapy and preschool at High Hopes.

Katherine has held leadership roles at several academic medical centers in pediatrics, fetal medicine, solid organ transplant, hematology/oncology and cardiology. She received her Master of Health Services Administration from The George Washington University and Bachelor of Arts in Organizational and Corporate Communication from the University of Houston.

Katherine is a winner of the Houston Business Journal’s Health Care Heroes Administrator award as well as a two-time recipient of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Organ Donation Medal of Honor for national leadership roles in adult and pediatric organ donation.

Katherine resides in Brentwood, TN with her husband Ryan – a pediatric critical care physician at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt – and three children Luke (13), Logan (10) and Leighton (8).