Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 26, 2003

Tom Cigarran – American Healthways Inc (amhc)

TOM CIGARRAN is Chairman and CEO of American Healthways, Inc., a healthcare management company headquartered in Nashville. Today AMHC provides comprehensive diabetes, cardiac, respiratory and other care enhancement programs for managed care organizations and has over 800,000 individuals nationwide currently participating in these programs. AMHC also operates hospital- based programs for the treatment of diabetes in 78 hospitals nationwide. Mr. Cigarran also serves as Chairman of AmSurg Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSG), a single specialty practice-based ambulatory surgery center company that was spunoff from AMHC into a separate public company in December, 1997. He has served as a director of International Clinical Laboratories, Inc. (ICL), Corporate Family Solutions, Inc. (CFAM), Clintrials Research, Inc. (CCRO), Meretek Diagnostics, Inc., and Genderm, Inc. Mr. Cigarran received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Villanova University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the New York University Graduate School of Business. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief introduction to American

Healthways?

Mr. Cigarran: American Healthways is the leading provider of what

we call care enhancement services. The marketplace