Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, MS, is Senior Vice President of Community Health & Equity, and Chief Wellness and Diversity Officer at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health System.  She is a board-certified emergency medicine physician; Chair of the Gail and Lois Warden Endowment on Multicultural Health. In 2003, she was appointed by Governor Granholm as the nation’s first state-level Surgeon General.  In 2012 she was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. She focuses on health care equity, infant mortality/maternal & child health, chronic disease, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating habits, and tobacco use. Dr. Wisdom provides strong leadership in diversity, population health, and improving the health of those disproportionately affected by poor health outcomes. Dr. Wisdom founded the award-winning program – the African American Initiative for Male Health Improvement (AIM–HI) and the Women Inspired Neighborhood (WIN) Network: Detroit to reduce infant mortality. As Michigan Surgeon General, she founded the nationally known Generation With Promise program - a youth leadership and empowerment effort now housed at Henry Ford. Under her leadership, the health system has received numerous awards for its equity, diversity and inclusion efforts, including the American Hospital Association Equity of Care Award in 2015, and No. 2 ranking on DiversityInc’s 2017 Top Hospitals and Health Systems list. Recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Wisdom has authored several peer-reviewed publications, appeared on national television, including ABC’s Nightline, and has presented to audiences across the country and internationally.