August 10, 2023
Dr. Carmen Gill Bailey is an experienced Chief Medical Officer, Executive and Medical Director
with diverse clinical and leadership experience and proven success in building out the public
and community health apparatus focused on health equity and quality primary care. Skilled in
cross-functional team leadership, managing multiple priorities, and leading collaboration with
multiple stakeholders, she has been instrumental to health care safety net systems throughout
the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region, both in public health and Federally Qualified Health
Centers. Dr. Gill Bailey has a depth of health care service delivery expertise that utilizes
collaboration and partnership. As Chief Medical Officer for a Federally Qualified Health Center,
her leadership in re-structuring and growing the health center quality improvement program,
has broadened the health center impact, yielded additional programming focused on health
care innovation, and resulted in expansion of community and public health services into
marginalized and vulnerable communities.
Dr. Gill Bailey completed her medical degree at Howard University College of Medicine, and her
residency training at Fairfax Hospital for Children. She has been active with the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Virginia and Washington, D.C., Chapters, most recently serving on
the Washington, D.C., Chapter’s Executive Board from 2019 to 2021. She is a past recipient of
the AAP Community Access to Child Health Grant, which she and her colleagues used to address
disparities in health access for teen parents and their children.
When not working as an advocate for social determinants of health and on health equity, Dr.
Gill Bailey is spending time with her family in Northern Virginia and is active in her community
serving as an Advisory Board Member of the Global Women’s Peace Foundation, and has also
established a scholarship at her alma mater, Howard University College of Medicine, which is
awarded annually to a student focused on community service, advocacy and leadership.