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Jayme Zage, PhD

Principal
Jayme is an esteemed thought leader with deep expertise. As a senior member of Sg2’s thought leadership team, Jayme draws on her years of experience to support client needs across a broad range of strategic initiatives, including strategic planning, service line development, organizational restructuring, workforce alignment, technology adoption and innovative partnerships. Jayme serves as a liaison between health system leaders and industry partners, enabling better understanding and collaboration between these key stakeholders. Working with provider clients, she leads strategic planning retreats, assessments that guide program development and prioritization for investment in these critical services.

During her 23-year tenure within Sg2’s Intelligence delivery team, Jayme has initiated development of program content for many service lines and topic areas, including care at home, behavioral health, neurosciences, women’s health, surgical services and post-acute care. She is a seasoned speaker regularly appearing in Sg2’s Executive Summit conference series, Sg2 Webinars and has been invited to speak at national conferences on both neurosciences and behavioral health topics. She regularly engages Sg2 and industry experts as a host for the Sg2 Perspectives podcast.

As a part of her master’s and doctoral work at Columbia University, Jayme studied and researched the molecular mechanism of disease. Her examination of basic cellular function can be applied to numerous diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer disease, viral and bacterial infections, and cystic fibrosis.

Jayme remained at Columbia University as a National Institutes of Health–funded postdoctoral fellow to research the function of neuronal proteins—molecules implicated in numerous diseases. In her postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago, she examined the role of presenilin in Alzheimer disease. Jayme has a BS in chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines.