Seiji Hayashi ’91

Overview

Chief Medical Officer, Community Health Plan Maryland, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Baltimore, MD

• BA, Art, Vassar College 
• MPH, Family and Community Health, Harvard School of Public Health
• MD, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dr. Seiji Hayashi (he/him) is Chief Medical Officer for CareFirst Community Health Plan Maryland and Lead Medical Director for Government Programs at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. CareFirst serves 3.5 million individuals and groups in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Dr. Hayashi is a board-certified family physician and an experienced leader in primary care, quality improvement, and health policy at the local and national levels. Prior to CareFirst, he spearheaded health services integration and transformation at two area federally qualified health centers. Hayashi’s national health policy experience comes from his role as Chief Medical Officer for the federal Community Health Center Program at the Health Resources and Services Administration. He started his career at Georgetown University and at George Washington University, teaching public health and conducting health policy research. Dr. Hayashi graduated with honors in studio art from Vassar, received his MD with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed his family medicine residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health while a fellow for the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy.

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