Michelle Gourdine, MD
Senior Vice President CVS Health®, & Chief Medical Officer, CVS Caremark
Michelle Gourdine, MD is Senior Vice President, CVS Health and Chief Medical Officer, CVS Caremark. In this role, she upholds the clinical integrity of CVS Caremark – ensuring that services are grounded in quality and safety and based on the continuous evaluation of scientific evidence. She’s passionate about the intersection of pharmaceutical innovation, population health and pharmacy benefits management to improve health outcomes and champion affordability.
Michelle’s career in medicine and public health leadership span more than 30 years. Before joining CVS Health in December 2022, she was Senior Vice President, Population Health and Primary Care, and interim Chief Medical Officer at the University of Maryland Medical System. In this role, she worked across the University of Maryland Medical System’s 12 hospitals to lead the transformation of health care delivery, with a focus on quality, safety, and equity.
Her public health career began in Baltimore County, Maryland as Health Officer from 1995 – 2005, where she led the creation of the Partner’s Health Improvement Program, an innovative collaboration between Kaiser Permanente and the Baltimore County Department of Health, to offer comprehensive health coverage to Baltimore County’s low income, uninsured residents who did not qualify for Medicaid or other public assistance. She also served as Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) from 2005 – 2008. As the principal public health administrator and Chief Public Health Physician in Maryland, she was responsible for implementing health care delivery services, establishing public health policy, regulations and legislative initiatives, and developing strategies to reduce health disparities.
Currently, Michelle is a clinical assistant professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and senior associate faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Additionally, she is a founding advisory board member of the Institute of Global Health Equity at Meharry Medical College.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she completed residency in the Department of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and practiced community-based pediatrics. She is the author of Reclaiming Our Health: A Guide to African American Wellness (Yale University Press).