Payton McGowen, MD, serves as the Medical Director in Illinois and is an elected member of Vituity’s board of directors. She has been a Vituity Partner since 2014. Her integrated sites across HSHS were awarded the Distinguished Practice Award in 2015 and the Culture of Caring Award in 2018 and 2019, as well as the Integrated Practice of the Year Award in 2015. Dr. McGowen holds a Medical Doctorate from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and completed her internal medicine residency at Saint Louis (MO) University.