Melanie B. Burgess oversees the strategy, management, operations, and financial performance of all perioperative and endoscopy services at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, a 715-bed hospital and the only Level I Trauma Center serving East Tennessee, Southeast Kentucky, and Western North Carolina. Under her leadership, UT Medical Center operates 36 operating rooms, a hospital-based ambulatory surgery centers, an Endoscopy Center, and three JV ASCs, serving over 28,000 surgical procedures annually. Ms. Burgess holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.