Dr. Matthew Davis is a pediatrician and a researcher in health services, health policy, and population health who joined Nemours Children’s Health in November 2023. As a primary care pediatrician, Dr. Davis has focused during his career on providing longitudinal care for patient-families experiencing medical and social complexity. As an investigator, he has centered his attention on patterns of health and health care in order to identify inequities and illuminate opportunities to improve children’s well-being at the individual, family, and community level.

Prior to joining Nemours, Dr. Davis served as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, where he was also the President and Chief Research Officer of the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute and Executive Vice-President and inaugural Chief Community Health Transformation Officer as the founding director of the Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities. Earlier in his career, he was on faculty at the University of Michigan and served as the Deputy Director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and Director of Participant Recruitment and Communities Engagement Cores for university-wide research initiatives.

Dr. Davis is an internationally recognized researcher and mentor in his field and has received extramural funding as a principal investigator from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications; on nearly half of these articles, his mentees have been the lead author. He was recognized by the Society for Pediatric Research in 2023 with the Douglas K. Richardson Award for lifetime achievement in pediatric health services and perinatal research.

Dr. Davis received his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and his master of arts degree in public policy from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency training in combined pediatrics and internal medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and then completed fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Chicago, where he was named the Irving B. Harris Fellow in Child Policy.