The UI Health OVCHA Business Development team works closely with clinical and executive leadership across the health system and external clinical partners to evaluate, develop, promote and implement clinical growth strategies. OVCHA Business Development activities include:

  • Affiliations/Partnerships
  • New Ambulatory Site Evaluation/Planning
  • Service Line Development
  • Physician Recruitment
  • Clinical Growth Strategy
  • Corporate Health
  • Business Plans

If you would like to reach OVCHA Business Development, please call (312) 996-3992 or email burkiewi@uic.edu.

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Peter Burkiewicz leads business development for UI Health, in partnership with senior leaders from across the health system including the University of Illinois College of Medicine, UI Hospital, Mile Square Health Center and the UIC health colleges.  He helps oversees the development, coordination and implementation of partnerships & affiliations, external provider relation activities, clinical service line development, planning, strategy, new business ventures, and network/market expansion.  He coordinates external market analysis and financial analysis to develop clinical growth plans.  He also serves as the Strategy Officer for Community Based Practice, overseeing strategy and business development for 10 Mile Square Health Centers and school based clinics.

Peter earned a Masters of Health Services Administration (MHSA) from the University of Michigan School of Public Health’s Health Management & Policy (HMP) program.  He currently serves on the Alumni Board of the HMP Program at the University of Michigan.  He has also written and taught case studies in health management and has mentored masters students at the University of Michigan and Rush University in Chicago.

Phone: 312-996-3992
E-mail: burkiewi@uic.edu

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Phone: 312-996-5682
E-mail: myekich@uic.edu

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The UI Health provider relations specialists represent UI Health to the physician community of the greater Chicago region.  They provide information to referring physicians about UI Health’s clinical programs, assist with the patient referral process, solve patient access issues, and strengthen relationships with referring hospitals, clinics, managed care and workers’ compensation companies.

The provider relations specialists at UI Health look forward to assisting you with:

  • Information about UI Health and its clinical services
  • Referral assistance
  • Coordination of physician outreach visits to physician offices
  • Clinical trial information
  • Faculty Speakers Bureau and Continuing Medical Education (CME) opportunities
  • Assistance with ways to contact physicians on the medical staff
  • Tours of UI Health facilities and site visits

If you would like more information or are interested in any of our services, please call (312) 996-3992 or email provrelations@uic.edu

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Under the direction of the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Business Development, Adam manages the provider outreach unit for the health system. His responsibilities include helping to form and oversee a new provider outreach committee structure. As director, Adam supervises a team of Provider Outreach Liaisons with which he has considerable knowledge and experience having served as Provider Outreach Liaison himself prior to this appointment.

Adam brings a wealth of experience from previous roles at the UIC Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design, Cork Medical, LLC and Kindred Healthcare. Adam is also an alumnus having earned his Master of Healthcare Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences and Psychology, both from UIC.

Email: abasak2@uic.edu

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Brian joined the UI Health in 2009 and has nearly 20 years of healthcare management experience.  Brian serves as the lead for all UI Health workers’ compensation accounts with employers and health insurers, as well as provides support to UI Health’s breast cancer screening program.  Brian also provides business development support to UI Health’s Urgent Care Clinic in Terminal 2 at O’Hare International Airport.  Previous to his role within the OVPHA, Brian served as Director of Marketing & Operations for Insight Health Services, a national diagnostic imaging services corporation.  Brian earned a bachelors in business administration from the Concordia University Wisconsin.

Phone: 312-996-4134
E-mail: bdempsey@uic.edu

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Melissa has assumed a portfolio of service lines and contacts. As part of a team of Provider Outreach Liaisons, Melissa is responsible for developing, maintaining and growing relationships between UI Health and external health care providers. She will help develop and promote service line activities as well as identify and resolve barriers to provider satisfaction within UI Health. Fundamentally, the liaison works directly with customers and the patients we serve to assure their wellbeing and overall positive experience.

Melissa brings solid experience to her role having previously worked with Ascension Illinois as Business Development Executive and Loyola University Medical Center as Physician Relations Consultant. She earned her Master of Science in Rehabilitation/Psychosocial Studies at the University of South Carolina, and her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Francis Marion University.

Phone: (312) 413-1935
E-mail: Mj81@uic.edu