Kate Carow

Adjunct Lecturer, Health Policy and Administration
President, Carow Consulting

MBA, Clemson University, South Carolina
BSc Business Administration, UIC

Katie Carow has over thirty years of experience in strategic and physician resource planning, mergers and acquisitions, business development, marketing and operations for health care organizations. She specializes in developing business strategies based on data-driven evidence. She initiated and led clinical and senior leadership teams to identify growth opportunities based on financial performance and market advantages. Ms. Carow has managed three to five-year planning processes, as well as annual tactical plans, and developed aligned physician growth strategies. She identified physician specialty and group targets for recruitment, succession planning and retention.

Ms. Carow is the founder and President of Carow Consulting and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois in the Master’s in Health Administration program She earned her Master’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in International Business from Clemson University, South Carolina and studied in Italy. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, member of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development and Chaired the Education and Networking Committee as a Board member of the Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum.

kcarow@uic.edu