Joseph L. Wright MD, MPH , FAAP

Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Capital Region Health within the University of Maryland Medical System. He previously served as Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the Howard University College of Medicine, and as Senior Vice President within the Children's National Health System, where he provided strategic leadership for the organization's advocacy mission, public policy positions, and community partnership initiatives.

He maintains appointments as an adjunct professor of emergency medicine and health policy at George Washington University and is an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. He served 17 years as the state pediatric medical director within the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, in addition to 8 years as principal investigator of the federally-funded EMS for Children National Resource Center.

Academically, Dr. Wright is among the nation's original cohort of board-certified pediatric emergency physicians with scholarly interests that include injury prevention and the needs of underserved communities. He has contributed over 100 publications to the scientific literature, served more than 20 visiting professorships, and was the principal investigator of the NIH-funded DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities. Dr. Wright is an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha (medicine) and Delta Omega (public health) honor societies, the Academy of Medicine of Washington, and the American Pediatric Society for which he co-chairs the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.