100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2020

Williams-Brinkley is a veteran health system leader now in her second regional president position at the integrated care leader. She oversees all of Kaiser Permanente’s care delivery and health plan operations in Washington, D.C., and suburban Maryland, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia. The region has 773,547 members. A long-time advocate for addressing disparities in care, she penned an editorial for the Maryland Daily Record calling on the industry and policymakers to more aggressively tackle implicit bias, saying, “Our nation lacks culturally competent, quality health care.”