Ali Thomas, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Pipeline Programs, Washington Permanente Medical Group
Ali Thomas has long black locs and is wearing a suit.

Dr. Ali Thomas was most recently a Consultant in Internal Medicine with Group Health Cooperative in Tacoma, WA, which he joined in 2007 because of its reputation as a high performing health care system. His early quality improvement work led to recognition as an Emerging Clinical Leader in 2008, and he is currently supporting Group Health’s efforts to address racial and ethnic health disparities. His professional activities also include health policy advocacy for the American College of Physicians, community leadership training through Leadership Tomorrow Seattle, and the establishment of a local Health Care Disparities Support Group. Fluent in Mandarin, Dr. Thomas first envisioned a career in medicine and public health while he was a Public Health Sciences Institute Intern at Morehouse College. His interest in U.S. health inequities developed when confronting them as a medicine resident at the John H. Stroger/Cook County Hospital, in Chicago, IL. Dr. Thomas received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 2002, completed internships in medicine and pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago IL, and graduated from the Internal Medicine Residency at Legacy Health Systems in Portland, Oregon in 2007.