Meredith Hirsh, MBA
CEO, The Hirsh Center
📍 Delray Beach, Florida
Speaker
About Meredith
Meredith Hirsh, MBA, is CEO of The Hirsh Center, an arthritis and sports medicine practice in Delray Beach, Florida, where she leads a team of rheumatologists, advanced practice providers, and dedicated staff. With nearly 20 years in healthcare, she focuses on the business side of medicine: leadership, operations, marketing, and advocacy for physicians and patients.
Meredith is a sought-after speaker on leadership, healthcare advocacy, and managing multigenerational teams. She is an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches in the Medical Business Management certification program she helped develop, and she hosts the weekly podcast "Working Healthcare." She holds leadership roles with the Medical Group Management Association, the American College of Rheumatology, and the Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations.
In 2023, the Florida Medical Association honored her with its Distinguished Layman's Award for Helping Physicians Practice Medicine. She earned her BS and Executive MBA from the University of Florida.
Ask Her About
Marketing an independent rheumatology practice
Hiring and managing multigenerational teams
Healthcare advocacy for practice owners
The practice administrator's role in growth
Sessions at the 2026 Growth Summit
Stop the Hiring Carousel: Discover Your Leadership Gaps and Build a Team That Takes Your Practice to the Next Level
Friday, October 16 · 11:35 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Panelist, with Adrienne Hollander, MD, Felix Lin, and Kevin Chan
Are you struggling to hire and lead a team, feeling stuck and unable to grow your practice? In this session, physician owners and leadership experts examine the leadership gaps that sabotage your hiring decisions and leave your team moving in different directions, explore frameworks for self-awareness and alignment, and learn how to build a team that actuallylasts.
Stay Visible, Stay Independent: How to Market Your Rheumatology Practice and Build Its Brand Through Every Stage
Saturday, October 17 · 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. · Breakout Session A
Panelist, with Diana Girnita, MD, PhD, and Kapil Naidu
Whether you are thinking about opening a private practice or have been established for years, marketing is a skill every practice owner should understand. A practice can lose a major source of referrals faster than you think when payer contracts change, referral networks consolidate, or large health systems shift patients internally. Building visibility before that happens can help protect your practice from being caught off guard. Learn practical strategies from a rheumatology practice CEO with a background in advertising and medical business marketing, a rheumatologist who has built a YouTube audience of more than 250,000 subscribers, and a digital marketing expert with expertise in local SEO and positioning practices for discovery in AI-powered search.