Dr. Kameron Matthews
Dr. Matthews seeks to focus on larger health policy issues that impact underserved patient populations - access to care and financing, health disparities, social determinants of health, primary care and the medical home. She is a clinician, advocate, administrator, and academic. Initially having worked in correctional medicine, she transitioned to administration within federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which provide community-based primary care and wrap-around social services. She believes in the FQHC as a meaningful structure for the delivery of care and therefore serves on multiple national and state committees focused on clinical implementation and advocacy issues on behalf of FQHCs. Having joined the US Department of Veterans Affairs in 2016, she led the newly created Office of Community Care into unprecedented transformation. She successfully implemented the new Veteran Community Care Program under the MISSION Act, deployed the Community Care Network national contracts through the majority of the country, and has transformed the provider claims processing efforts. Then as Chief Medical Officer of the largest health care system in the world, she assisted with the further transformation of this high quality, high performing integrated network, including serving as the VHA Functional Champion for the EHR Modernization to Cerner commercial product.
