Kirk Mathews | Chief Executive Officer | Principal + Founder

Kirk Mathews has 21 years healthcare experience concentrated in physician recruiting.  Prior to co-founding IMI in 1997, Kirk was Senior Vice President of Cejka & Company, responsible for managing one of the nation’s largest physician recruiting enterprises with a search portfolio of over 300 clients.  His experience includes:  management; sales; operations; recruiting strategy; physician compensation and benefits planning and design; and employment contract design and negotiations.  In 1989 he served as Vice President of Clayton Medical Associates after serving as Senior Recruiting Consultant with Jackson & Coker, the nation’s largest physician recruiting firm at the time. 

Kirk received his BS in Accounting and MBA from Northwest Missouri State University where he was a decorated athlete; named as an All-American Quarterback and inducted into the Northwest Missouri State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.  Kirk is a Member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, serving on the SHM Workforce Summit Committee, and an original Member of The Phoenix Group, a Hospitalist industry think-tank.  Kirk is a frequent speaker on the topics of Hospitalist Programs and Hospitalist recruiting, and is a contributing writer for the SHM Best Practices Hospitalist Course. He has also written a book A Practical Guide to Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention, released in the Fall of 2008 and published by HC Pro Inc.

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