Karen Maddox MD, MPH

Karen E. Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH is a practicing cardiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and an Associate Professor at Washington University School of Medicine and School of Social Work, as well as a health policy advisor for BJC Healthcare, a 15-hospital system in Missouri and Illinois. She served from 2014 to 2016 as Senior Advisor in the Office of Health Policy, United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Joynt Maddox received her A.B. in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and her M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine. She trained in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and then in Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also completed a research fellowship in Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, from which she received her M.P.H.