Alexa B. Kimball, MD, MPH
CEO & PRESIDENT, HARVARD MEDICAL FACULTY PHYSICIANS
Dr. Kimball is CEO and President of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an academic multi-specialty 501(c)3 that employs 2000 physicians and providers who practice in the Boston area, two-thirds of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty. She co-chairs the Beth Israel Lahey Health Performance Network Board (1.3 million members served), and is on the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Lahey Health. A Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kimball has published over 340 papers and is the author or editor of several medical books. Awards include Mentor of the Year from the Women’s Dermatologic Society, Outstanding Physician-Clinician Award from the National Psoriasis Foundation, Fierce HealthCare’s Women of Influence Award, 2020, Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Psoriasis Foundation, and the Joseph B. Martin Dean’s Leadership Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kimball serves on the Advisory Council to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (previously Francis Collins, MD, PhD) and has served on multiple other Boards including the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Dr. Kimball received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine, an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and public and international affairs from Princeton University. She completed an internship in medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital, her residency in dermatology at Stanford University Medical Center and a clinical research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.