Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.

Bibbins-Domingo is a recognized expert in prevention and health equity and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed original research articles. She is a cardiovascular disease epidemiologist whose work focuses on clinical and public health approaches to prevention, particularly in young adults. She served as the chair, vice-chair, and member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force from 2010 to 2017.

At UCSF she served as the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine, and was the Chair of the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 2017 to 2022. In 2006, Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, a research center focused on advancing health equity and reducing health disparities in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally, and globally.

Bibbins-Domingo was a trustee of Princeton University from 2018 to 2022. Provided by Wikipedia