Kameron Leigh Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP

Kameron Leigh Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP

Family Physician and Executive Leader - Cityblock Health

Kameron Leigh Matthews MD, JD, FAAFP is the Chief Health Officer of Cityblock Health, a transformative, value-based healthcare provider integrating medical, behavioral, and social 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.

She 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-chairs the Health System and Provider Advisory Board of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI).

As a passion outside of work, 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. She is currently located in Washington, DC, where she lives with her husband, Mazi. 

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