Anne Edwards, MD, FAAP is the Chief Medical Officer at the American Academy of Pediatrics; previously holding the titles of Chief Population Health Officer and Senior Vice President of Primary Care and Subspecialty Pediatrics. As Chief Medical Officer. In this role, Dr Edwards provides strategic direction for AAP policy and clinical guidance development, healthcare delivery programs, public health programs, child health finance, and quality initiatives including the CHILD Registry. Dr Edwards served as co-lead of the COVID-19 response for the AAP.
Currently, Dr Edwards serves as a member of the Medicaid and CHIPRA Quality Measure Core Set Work Group and as co-chair of the pediatric measures set for the Core Quality Measures Collaborative. She also has served on the Measures and Metric Committee of the Collaborative for the Well-Being of Children and Families of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
Prior to her role at the AAP, she was co-chair of Children’s Health Initiatives at Health Partners, the largest non-profit consumer governed health care organization in the nation, as well as chair of pediatrics at Park Nicollet Health Services, practicing hospital-based and community general pediatrics serving an urban, immigrant community. Dr Edwards received her medical degree and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Minnesota.