Benjamin S. Heavrin, MD, is the new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at Qsource, a Tennessee-based not-for-profit consultancy that oversees federal, state and commercial healthcare quality improvement programs in a 12-state region.

Dr. Heavrin will provide clinical and administrative leadership across healthcare settings while working closely with Qsource staff to help define and achieve the organization's corporate goals. Heavrin is a board certified emergency medicine physician practicing in middle Tennessee.

Dr. Heavrin brings about two decades of clinical experience to Qsource. He served as a faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Tennessee St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital and TriStar Skyline Medical Center

He completed his undergraduate studies in economics at Princeton University and relocated to Tennessee to complete degrees in business and medicine. He earned a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in healthcare from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Vanderbilt School of Medicine.