Dr. Clifton Meador serves as Executive Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. A product of the deep South, Cliff Meador hasn’t quite made up his mind whether he most loves Alabama or Tennessee. Growing up in Selma, Alabama, he received his MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship training at Columbia Presbyterian in New York and then at Vanderbilt.. After a brief stint in private practice, Dr. Meador joined the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) where he rose to the post of Dean of the School of Medicine. He then came back to Nashville, as Chief of Medicine at Saint Thomas Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt. He then served as Chief Medical Officer of Saint Thomas Hospital. Known in Nashville for his remarkable “people” skills, Drs. Jacobson and Maupin eagerly recruited him as the Executive Director of the Alliance when he retired from Saint Thomas in 1998. In addition to this title, Dr. Meador currently holds joint faculty positions at both Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.