Health Leads appoints Dr. Damon Francis CMO

Boston-based Health Leads — a social enterprise that works to address patients’ basic resource needs as standard parts of care — has named Damon Francis, MD, CMO.

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Dr. Francis previously spent five years at San Leandro, Calif.-based Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, where he served as interim director and medical director of Health Care for the Homeless. He was also the medical director of the Urban Male Health Initiative, a campaign led by the Alameda County Public Health Department. Before that, Dr. Francis worked as a physician at Oakland, Calif.-based Alta Bates Summit East Bay AIDS Center.

Dr. Francis continues to provide urgent care services at an Oakland-based community clinic and serves as an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

“For 20 years, Health Leads has demonstrated that effective social needs interventions in clinical settings are both possible and necessary,” Dr. Francis said in a statement. “I’m honored to join Health Leads in its commitment to addressing patients’ unmet social needs at a systematic level and equipping clinical leaders across the country with the tools and insight they need to close the treatment gaps that exist for millions of patients.”

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