Kimberly MacPherson

Kimberly MacPherson is the Executive Director of Health Management and Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Haas School of Business. She is also the Faculty Program Director for Health Policy & Management at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health and the Rural Health Innovation Program. Kimberly is the Co-Director for the Berkeley Center for Health Technology, a research and education center that works on topics around balancing affordability, equity and innovation. Kim focuses on health system strategy, healthcare workforce, health tech and coverage and adoption around biotech and medical devices.

At UC Berkeley, where she joined the faculty in 2006, Ms. MacPherson teaches a variety of graduate level courses at both Haas and SPH including Health Care Finance, Health Care Strategy, Healthcare in the 21st Century, Trends in Biotech/Pharma, Commercializing Biotech, and Unlocking Digital Health Innovation. In May 2020 she was honored with the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ms. MacPherson brings over 30 years of health industry experience spanning leadership roles in operations, management consulting and strategic/business planning and product development. She is a frequent speaker and moderator at conferences and organization-sponsored meetings/events. She is the Board Chair of Nightingale Education Group and Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Trustees for Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (part of Dignity Health/CommonSpirit) in San Francisco where she served for 12 years until the 2024 acquisition by UCSF. She holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and an MPH from the School of Public Health at U.C. Berkeley.