Mike Main, MD

Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, BJC Health System West Region (Saint Luke’s) 
President, Saint Luke’s Physician Group

Mike Main, MD, serves as senior vice president and chief clinical officer for BJC Health System’s West Region (Saint Luke’s) and as president of Saint Luke’s Physician Group, which includes nearly 1,000 physicians and advanced practice providers. He is a practicing cardiologist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, with clinical interests including valvular heart disease and echocardiography. A professor of medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, he is the author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in medical journals.

He received his medical degree from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, followed by an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. In addition to his medical training, he completed a Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Healthcare Leadership and Management, and graduate certification in Health Informatics Leadership, all at the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.

He formerly served as medical director of the echocardiography laboratory at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, as chair of the Saint Luke’s Physician Group Cardiovascular Division, and as co-executive medical director of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute.

He is an active member of multiple professional societies including the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), serving for 10 years as the ASE advisor to the American Medical Association (AMA) Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) and as the ASE advisor to the AMA Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel. He has also served on the ASE board of directors, the American College of Cardiology Board of Governors, the International Contrast Ultrasound Society board of directors, the American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease Exam Committee, and the American Hospital Association’s Committee on Clinical Leadership.