Kirsten Meisinger

Kirsten Meisinger, MD, MHCDS

Director, Systems Transformation and Leadership

Kirsten Meisinger is core faculty at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, where she leads the System Transformation team. She is an accompanier at Wellbeing and Equity in the World, an organization devoted to advancing wellbeing and equity in partnership with those most affected by inequities by designing cross-sector collaboration. She has faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Tufts University, The MGH Institute of Health Professions, Tiradentes University, Brazil, and the Latin America Team at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

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 that 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.

Meisinger is a Regional Medical Director, Medical Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Clinical 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.

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.