Dr. Kim Yu is an executive family physician leader, national and international speaker, past president of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians, and President of the California Academy of Family Physicians. She serves as Member at Large on WONCA’s Executive Committee and as Liaison to the World Health Organization. Based out of California, Dr. Yu lives to #inspirecreatelead and currently works at the American Board of Family Medicine as the PRIME National Strategy Consultant and as an urgent care specialist at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. She has worked as a National Director, Community and Strategic Partnerships, Aledade, and is an expert in population health and value-based care.  

Dr. Yu has previously served as the chair for the AAFP’s Global Health Member Interest Group and as convener for WONCA’s Special Interest Group in Health Equity. She has served as co-lead of AAFP’s Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) and volunteer faculty for track 3, Mission Driven Philanthropy and Leadership for the past seven years. She has served on the AAFP delegation to the AMA and has interests in physician wellbeing, population health, practice management, health IT, value based care, global health, health equity, advocacy, disaster relief, and a wide range of primary care topics.