EDWARD MCEACHERN

BBP BOARD OF DIRECTOR

Dr. McEachern currently is the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for PacificSource’s markets in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Montana. PacificSource is a physician-founded 88 year old not-for-profit health plan offering coverage in Medicare, Medicaid, and all commercial lines of business.

A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Dr. McEachern earned an undergraduate degree in biology at Emory University. As a Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Scholar at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland he earned a co-terminal master’s degree in biological systems theory and statistics. He went to Case Western Reserve University for Medical School, a Pathology residency at the University of California in San Francisco, a second residency in General Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Health Services Research at the Cleveland Clinic. He has practiced medicine in Georgia, Ohio, and Idaho.

His academic career includes faculty positions at Vanderbilt’s center for Health Services, Emory University School of Medicine (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Case Western Reserve University, and currently at the University of Utah where he is an associate professor of Orthopedics in the School of medicine, and the Director of the Department’s Health Services Research program, and an Assistant Professor on faculty at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.