As a former Medical Director for Health Policy and Advocacy with GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. McInnis has been instrumental in pharmaceutical strategy, including legislative and delivery-system design that links optimized medication use to clinical goals of therapy. She has presented nationally on the concepts of primary care delivery system redesign, including the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations, payer reimbursement strategies, and quality initiatives that reduce health care costs and improve patient outcomes. She believes that aligned financial incentives for payers, providers, and patients with quality outcomes supported by robust integrated IT support infrastructure, enables systematic changes for continuous, coordinated, and proactive care while reducing total health care cost. Dr. McInnis currently serves as an Officer of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, is Co-Chair of the Center for Public Payer Implementation, and is Co-Leader of the Medication Management in the Patient-Centered Medical Home Task Force. She has served or continues to serve on committees for numerous organizations, such as the National Business Group on Health, U.S. Chamber, Pharmacy Quality Alliance, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She is actively involved with health policy and advocacy at the state and federal government levels in emerging payment systems.

She has over 20 years of senior executive and clinical experience in various employer, military (US Air Force), and hospital/group practice health management segments. Prior to joining GSK, she was an Associate Medical Director and Health Care Manager with GE and later the Corporate Medical Director for Michelin North America, where she helped engineer the redesign of the healthcare benefits for nearly 50,000 beneficiaries.

Dr. McInnis graduated from Erskine College with a BS (summa cum laude) and received her Doctor of Medicine from Wake Forest Medical School, being designated an NIH student clinical scholar. She completed a residency in Occupational Medicine as an OPSF scholar and an MPH (high honors) at the University of Oklahoma. She is Board Certified in Preventive and Occupational Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and a Former Course Advisor to the Department of Continuing Education of Harvard University. She serves on the Board of Trustees of The Thornwell Home for Children.