Dr. Meisinger is an international expert on healthcare system transformation with a focus on the patient centered 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 second-round national pilot for Primary Care transformation in the private sector in Brazil with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She is an accompanier at Wellbeing and Equity in the World, an organization devoted to advancing wellbeing and equity by designing cross sector collaboration.

Academic: Dr. Meisinger is the Director of System Transformation and Leadership, Harvard Center for Primary Care, at Harvard Medical School. She leads the Quality Improvement arm of the HRSA grant “Technology Enabled Education for Community Health”, directs the Medical Director Leadership Institute, and leads partnerships with innovative organizations, including Upstream USA and Oak Street Health. 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). 

Clinical and Operations Leadership: Dr. Meisinger has had several leadership roles at The Cambridge Health Alliance, including Medical Staff President. She held transformative positions as Medical Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Medical Director of 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. She has an active panel of patients she has cared for over the past 25 years and sees patients 4 days a week.

Board Membership: Dr. Meisinger is Board Chair of One Heart Worldwide, an organization based in Nepal focused on community health transformation through implementation of prenatal, perinatal and newborn healthcare curricula for community health workers and building birth centers as physical infrastructure. She is a Board member of the Quality Subcommittee for Fallon Healthcare. She is a longstanding Board member of the Medical Legal Partnership, Boston.

Education: 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 of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) degree from Dartmouth University.

She speaks fluent Portuguese, Spanish and French. She can get away with ordering food in German.