Kisha Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Kisha Davis, MD, MPH, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and president of the AAFP, which represents 124,500 physicians and medical students nationwide. As an AAFP Board member, Dr. Davis advocates on behalf of family physicians and patients to inspire positive change in the U.S. health care system.

Dr. Davis is the chief health officer for Montgomery County, Maryland. She previously served as vice president of health equity at Aledade. Prior to joining Aledade, she served as medical director at CHI Health Care in Maryland. She also served as vice chair of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), advising Congress, the secretary of Health and Human Services and states on Medicaid policy. Earlier in her career, she served as medical director at CHI Health Care and as a White House Fellow at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, working to strengthen connections between the food and health safety net. Dr. Davis serves as a preceptor for the Uniformed Services Preventive Medicine Residency and is a clinical instructor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

As a member of the AAFP, Dr. Davis has served on the Commission on Governmental Advocacy, as a member of the Membership Task Force, as the new physician member of the AAFP Board of Directors and as convener of the 2019 National Conference of Constituency Leaders. Dr. Davis has also served the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians in a variety of leadership roles, including foundation treasurer, member of the board of directors and a past president and chair of the board of directors.

Dr. Davis earned her Bachelor of Science from Duke University and her medical degree from the University of Connecticut. She completed her residency at the University of Maryland, where she served as chief resident. She later earned a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.

She is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has the AAFP Degree of Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.