Jason Cunningham
Chief Executive of West County Health Centers Federally Qualified Health Center
Shifting a Community: Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Lower Russian River
Explore applying system thinking and design, and catalyzing stakeholders to systemically reduce adverse childhood experiences. This is an evolving story with the community completing their second year. This will be a reflection on moving at the speed of community, what is working, and what we would have done differently.
About Jason
Jason Cunningham is the Chief Executive of West County Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center caring for patients in western Sonoma County.
West County Health Centers has become a thought leader and innovator in re-designing Primary Care around the principle that a “trusting, long-term relationship” is the most important product of health care and the most influential in improving health. Dr. Cunningham’s leadership has focused on social equity and community collective action, team-based care for patients with complex medical and social stressors, and the use of data to drive innovation.
Dr. Cunningham is interested in leadership within healthcare delivery and participates in multiple boards and committees with local, regional and state organizations. He is a Senior Scholar at Stanford’s School of Medicine Clinical Excellence Research Center.
Dr. Cunningham is a Family Physician and remains dedicated to patient care. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and medical degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.