Kameron Matthews MD, JD, FAAFP is the Chief Health Officer of Cityblock Health. Founded in 2017, Cityblock Health is a transformative, value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid, dually eligible and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries. She oversees all clinical operations across the entirety of the integrated care model virtually, in-home, and in community-based clinics, with modern, custom-built technology at the core.

Originally from the Philadelphia area, Dr. Matthews earned her bachelor's degree in public policy studies from Duke University, her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and her law degree from the University of Chicago. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she served as Chief Resident her final year. Dr. Matthews has focused her career on underserved patient populations, having worked as a staff physician at Cook County Jail and with Erie Family Health Center, a large community health center also in Chicago. She served as Chief Medical Officer of Mile Square Health Center within the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, overseeing twelve federally qualified community health center locations. She was Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine within the University and also served as a Medical Director with the System's Department of Managed Care. After leaving Chicago, Dr. Matthews joined the Veterans Health Administration, the nation’s largest integrated health system, where she served in multiple executive roles. As the Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Community Care, she oversaw a national budget of more than $14 billion and was responsible for the contracted community-based provider network for veterans nationwide, with both primary and secondary payor programs. She successfully implemented the VA MISSION Act of 2018 expanding eligibility for Veterans to care with community partners and implementing increased efficiencies in business, technology and operations process. Then as the Chief Medical Officer and Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Clinical Services, she continued efforts to transform and integrate care throughout all medical, behavioral health, and social service lines. She served as VHA's Functional Champion for the EHR Modernization across the health system, directing the clinical, business, and operational direction of the system's deployment to a commercial EHR.  

Dr. Matthews was honored to be awarded the 2015 National Medical Association Council for the Concerns of Women Physicians Emerging Trailblazer Award, the 2015 NACHC Health Professions Education and Training Award, the 2015 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Health Braintrust Congressman Louis Stokes Public Health Advocate Award, and the 2017 National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health Award. She was selected as a Most Influential Clinical Executive of 2023 by Modern Healthcare, a health equity honoree of the 2023 Fierce 50, and an honoree of the Slice of Healthcare 2023 50 Under 50.

She was the 2018-2020 National Academy of Medicine - American Board of Family Medicine James C. Puffer Fellow, and in 2020, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. With the Academy, she chairs the Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs Advisory Committee and is a member of the Standing Committee of Primary Care. She is a member of the 6th class of Health Innovators Fellows with the Aspen Institute. She co-chairs the Health System and Provider Advisory Board of the Coalition for Health AI.  She is a member of the advisory board of the National Minority Quality Forum and the advisory board of IndyGeneUS. She previously served as a founding board member of the Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform, the Vice-Chair of the board of the directors of the National Quality Forum, and on the board of directors of HealthTeam Works. 

She is a National President Emeritus of the Student National Medical Association and an alumni of the National Medical Fellowships. She is a fellow of the Tony Patino Fellowships. As her priority passion outside of work, she is the president and co-founder of Tour for Diversity Inc., which has hosted national pre-medical enrichment programming to more than 3500 underrepresented minority high school and undergraduate students across 27 states since 2012.