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Kameron Leigh Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP, Chief Health Officer, IMPaCT Care

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Kam-ryn Lee Math-yews

Introduction (94 words)

Dr. Kameron Leigh Matthews is the Chief Health Officer of IMPaCT Care, a public benefit corporation that helps organizations unlock the power of the grassroots Community Health Workforce. A board-certified Family Physician based in Washington DC, Dr. Matthews has focused her career on transforming systems for marginalized communities, having held multiple leadership roles in correctional medicine, federally qualified health centers, managed care, and other non-profit organizations, as well as led transformational efforts at Cityblock Health and in the Veterans Health Administration including the implementation of the MISSION Act of 2018 and the EHR modernization effort. 

Short Bio (217 words)

Kameron Leigh Matthews MD, JD, FAAFP is the Chief Health Officer of IMPaCT Care, a public benefit corporation that helps organizations manage a technology-enabled CHW workforce at scale. She formerly served as Chief Health Officer with Cityblock Health, a value-based advanced primary care practice integrating services for Medicaid and dually, eligible, low-income Medicare beneficiaries. She previously led transformational efforts at the Veterans Health Administration focused on integrated, Veteran-centered models of care including the implementation of the MISSION Act of 2018 and the EHR modernization effort. Dr. Matthews is Senior Faculty with the Weitzman Institute, and Associate Clinical Professor - Volunteer with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of California at San Francisco. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine where she chairs the Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs Advisory Committee and is a member of the Standing Committee on Primary Care. She is a member of the sixth class of the Aspen Institute's Health Innovators Fellowship. She co-founded and directs the Tour for Diversity in Medicine (T4D), an initiative seeking to bring premedical enrichment activities to underrepresented minority high school and undergraduate students across the country. She completed her bachelor's degree at Duke University, her medical degree at Johns Hopkins University, and her law degree at the University of Chicago. 

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