As Chief Health Officer for Swope Health, Dr. Naiomi Jamal heads all medical service lines including internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn, optometry and specialty services. Dr. Jamal also leads the Department of Quality and Population Health at Swope Health. She is responsible for organization wide clinical quality, performance and process improvement, along with population health initiatives geared toward improving care team and patient experience, improving population health outcomes, and resource stewardship. This includes developing and overseeing a quality plan based on the principles of health equity for the entire organization.

She also practices as a primary care physician and sees a variety of complex medical diagnoses. Dr. Jamal is Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Department of Community & Family Medicine at University of Missouri—Kansas City, where she is responsible for developing and delivering a preventive medicine and public health curriculum for family medicine residents. She is also responsible for the didactic lecture series Social and Structural Drivers of Health at the UMKC School of Medicine for Medical Students.

Dr. Jamal completed her medical degree from The Aga Khan University, in Pakistan. While there, she developed an interest in serving vulnerable populations. She later finished a family medicine residency from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2015. She went on to complete a General Preventive Medicine and Public Health Residency and obtained a master’s degree in Public Health from UTMB in 2017. She is also board certified in Medical Quality.

Dr. Jamal serves on several philanthropic boards, including the Health Forward Foundation and the Kansas City Medical Society Foundation, and has had the honor of being named one of 20 to Know in Healthcare by the Kansas City Business Journal in 2022, and was awarded the Dr. Samuel Rodgers Achievement Award by the Missouri Primary Care Association in 2022.

Her areas of interest include preventive medicine, public health, chronic disease management, women’s health and integrative care. She is particularly interested in finding community based, integrated care solutions to the social drivers of health, which challenge so many of her patients.