President and CEO
The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Linda Thomas-Hemak, M.D., FACP, FAAP, is President and CEO of The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education and The Wright Center for Community Health, affiliated entities with a shared mission to improve the health and welfare of communities through inclusive and responsive health services and the sustainable renewal of an inspired and competent workforce that is privileged to serve.
A Baylor College of Medicine Michael DeBakey Scholar who completed Harvard’s Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program in Boston, she joined The Wright Center in 2001, became President in 2007, and CEO in 2012.
As President and CEO of The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Dr. Thomas-Hemak oversees one of the nation’s largest HRSA-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Consortiums, addressing primary care physician workforce shortages compounded by escalating healthcare disparities.
Additionally, as leader of The Wright Center for Community Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike, she spearheads the nonprofit’s vision to be the nation’s premier model of primary healthcare delivery, overseeing a growing network of nine safety-net, community health centers that offer comprehensive whole-person primary health services throughout Northeast Pennsylvania - irrespective of age, income, or insurance.
Concurrent with her executive responsibilities, Dr. Thomas-Hemak is also quintuple board-certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, obesity medicine, addiction medicine, and nutrition. A healer at heart, tending to multiple generations of families, neighbors, and friends in her hometown for more than 20 years, she firmly believes her perspective as a hands-on medical practitioner and advocate for patients and families enlightens all of her executive decision-making.
Under Dr. Thomas-Hemak’s leadership, The Wright Center aims to have its Graduate Medical Education Safety Net Consortiums recognized by the President of the United States by June 30, 2027, as the Health and Human Services’ gold standard for community-based primary health services delivery with integrated workforce development.
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Monday, April 8, 2024
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