Kirsten Meisinger, MD, MHCDS

Kirsten Meisinger, MD, MHCDS

Kirsten Meisinger is an international expert on Patient Centered Medical Homes and healthcare system transformation. She was National Faculty Co-Chair for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiative “Transforming Clinical Practices Initiative” (TCPi), an initiative which transformed over 140,000 US practices to value-based, patient centered medical care. She was co-chair of the National Health Equity Collaborative (sponsored by NCQA) and a member of the Expert Panel for the Health Care Homes initiative in Australia. Currently she is helping design and implement a national pilot for Primary Care in the Private Sector in Brazil.

Dr. Meisinger is Director of Provider Engagement, Regional Medical Director, Medical Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Operations Lead for Telehealth at the Cambridge Health Alliance. She cares for an active Family Medicine panel at the Union Square Family Health Center, an award winning Patient Centered Medical Home practice that was selected as one of the top 30 Ambulatory care sites in the US by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2010.

Dr. Meisinger has faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Tufts University, The Mass IHP and the Latin America Team at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). She is core faculty at the Harvard Center for Primary Care, where she designs learning collaboratives in rapid cycle format. She is a founding member of Wellbeing and Equity in the World, an organization devoted to promoting equity using people with lived experiences and cross sector collaboration. 

Dr. Meisinger earned a BA from Brown University, her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University, a Family Medicine Residency at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and a Master in Health Care Delivery Science degree from Dartmouth. She speaks fluent Portuguese, Spanish and French. She can get away with ordering food in German.