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Profile: Dr. Rhonda Moore Johnson – Pediatrician, Medical Director Focused on Health Equity
Dr. Rhonda Moore Johnson. PHOTO/File
Dr. Rhonda Moore Johnson is the medical director of health equity and quality services at Highmark Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh. She spent part of her childhood in public housing and graduated from South Hills High School before earning a bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard, a medical degree from Penn State University and master’s in public health from Ohio State University.
Rhonda Moore Johnson leads Highmark’s efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities among the insurers’ members through clinical interventions and improvements in health literacy, language access and health-plan cultural competency. That means, among other things, training health care providers and their staff to share information with patients in plain language, and to be on the lookout for health issues that tend to occur among certain racial, ethnic and economic groups.