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Jessica C. Dudley, MD, in January began as the chief medical officer of the Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization, marking a return to BWH from Partners, where she was an associate medical director at PCHI and team leader for one of the Partners High Performance Medicine teams.
“Jessica has proved to be a tremendous asset in her first months on the job,” said BWPO President Allen L. Smith, MD, MS. “She has excellent leadership and communication skills, and she is results-oriented and wonderfully collaborative.”
Dudley, who graduated from HMS and completed her internal medicine and primary care residency at BWH, is the first woman to achieve chief medical officer status at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As the BWPO’s chief medical officer, Dudley will lead many key initiatives, including contracting, achieving Pay for Performance (P4P) quality and efficiency targets and advancing physician work life and leadership development efforts.
“I am thrilled to return to the Brigham in a leadership position for the BWPO,” Dudley said. “Both BWH and the BWPO have a commitment to the delivery of safe, quality and efficient care, and I look forward to supporting the physicians in achieving these goals.”
In addition, Dudley serves as co-chair of the BWH Physicians’ Council, and works closely with council subgroups that focus on physician work life issues, leadership development and volunteerism efforts.
Dudley has a bachelor of arts in biology from Yale University, and she graduated from HMS in 1994. After completing her medical training at BWH, she remained a primary care physician through 2007 while serving as an instructor in Medicine at HMS for interns and residents in the outpatient ambulatory clinic.