Meridian's seasoned management team has an established track record in financing, developing, and operating ambulatory surgery centers, specialty surgical hospitals and related healthcare ancillary businesses throughout the United States.
Chad Luttrell
Senior Vice President, Information Technology
Chad has more than 18 years of experience in information technology and over six of those years in the healthcare industry. Chad previously served as director of application development for Surgis, Inc. (now USPI), a leading ambulatory surgery center management company. In his role with Surgis, he developed industry leading applications that automated the data mining needs from their distributed surgery center billing, scheduling, clinical, and financial accounting systems. Prior to Surgis Inc, he served as a senior consultant for Everest Technologies. As project manager and a lead developer for Everest, Chad designed and developed multi-faceted, integrated applications for companies in the insurance, healthcare, and education industries. He also served as director of information systems for Medical Business Associates where he developed an application to support a centralized coding service for hospitals across the country.
Zach Guest
Manager, Information Technology
Zach has more than seven years of experience in Information Technology. Two of those years were spent working directly in the healthcare industry. His experience has spanned other industries as well in which he supported and maintained technical help desk support for Comcast and Fresenius Medical Care (previously Renal Care Group). Zach was previously on the team at Ceres Terminals as an information technology support specialist to assist in the creation and development of the I.T. support infrastructure for the company. Zach is a 2004 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with a major in computer information systems.
Lamont Oden
Help Desk Analyst
Lamont has over eight years of information technology and support experience. He spent four years working in the healthcare industry as a helpdesk analyst for Fresenius Medical Care (previously Renal Care Group) where he addressed and resolved all security, hardware, network, data, and software related issues. He also spent two years working in information technology roles at Comcast Cable. Lamont has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and information systems from Tennessee State University.
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