Priscilla Wang

Instructor, Department of Medicine

Associate Medical Director, Primary Care Health Equity, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Mass General Brigham

Primary Care Physician, Department of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Priscilla Wang is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Medical Director for Primary Care Health Equity at Mass General Brigham (MGB), in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, leading system efforts to close clinical disparities via its United Against Racism campaign, community health worker interventions, nutrition equity strategy, and behavioral health Medicaid ACO programming. Her work broadly seeks to address structural inequities in health care, and to empower vulnerable patients to effectively navigate the health care system. In the nutrition space, her interest is in developing strategic ways to identify populations affected by nutrition-related health inequities, screening and connecting patients with nutrition-related social determinants of health resources, integrating nutrition into chronic condition programming, and fostering relationships with health system and community-based partners / payers (e.g., Medicaid) to coordinate effective responses in the nutrition equity space.

 

Her prior experience includes serving as Clinical Lead for the MGB Medicaid ACO ED Navigator and Community Partners programs to support at-risk complex patient populations via care coordination and connections to social resources, cofounding national patient advocacy campaigns to promote access to health care, advising patient engagement strategy in the U.S. Office of Health Reform in the Department of Health and Human Services, and leading a patient navigator program at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Harvard College, the Yale School of Medicine, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine Residency, and completed her Population Health Leadership Fellowship in the Department of Population Health Management at Mass General Brigham.