Joe Kimura, MD, MPH has served as Chief Medical Officer of Atrius Health since January 2016. Atrius Health is a 750-physician independent multispecialty practice based in Boston and a market leader in value-based care and population-health management. Over the past two decades, Dr. Kimura has helped lead efforts in quality and safety improvement, population health management, clinical informatics and data analytics, and medical education at Atrius Health and the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.

Dr. Kimura is board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics and an avid national advocate for the practical applications of clinical informatics and healthcare analytics to improve healthcare delivery — especially in the value-based ambulatory setting. From 2012–16, he served on several Office of the National Coordinator Workgroups and Committees and was co-chair of the Workgroup on Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use.

Dr. Kimura is actively involved in the healthcare technology start-up community in Massachusetts and serves as an executive board member for the Yale University Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology. In 2012, he was recognized as one of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists by Modern Healthcare and as a leading CMIO expert by Health Data Management in 2016.

Dr. Kimura serves on the national boards of the Clinical Health Network for Transformation (national network of Planned Parenthood affiliates) and the Council for Accountable Care Practices — an affiliate of the American Medical Group Association Foundation.

Dr. Kimura is a graduate of Stanford University, Washington University School of Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health. After a primary-care internal-medicine residency at the UCSF, he completed a health services research fellowship in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. In 2015, he completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan School of Management with a certificate in Management, Innovation, and Technology. His clinical practice remains at HVMA Kenmore and he is a faculty member in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School.