Dr. Cheryll Bowers-Stephens

A 27-year health care industry veteran, Dr. Bowers-Stephens has held a variety of leadership roles, from serving as the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospital’s Assistant Secretary of Mental Health (Government Appointee) to managing Medical Director to Chief Medical Officer for Healthy Blue. Dr. Bowers-Stephens’ two decades of directly managing staff, fiscal budgets, and clinical operations, means that she keenly understands all aspects of clinical, quality, and utilization management as well as population health strategies. She is currently board-certified in both General and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry with an unrestricted medical license to practice in Louisiana, as well as two other states. She has also taught organizational behavior and financial management and accounting, the core curriculum for students working on a Master of Public Health at LSU School of Public Health.