ACOG CEFALO National Leadership Institute
Faculty
Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP, FAAP
Kimberly D. Manning is a general internist/hospitalist in the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Manning is Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair of RYSE Initiatives. Her clinical work is at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s safety net facility, where she has been for over two decades.
Dr. Manning is known for her innovative approach to medical education and has been recognized nationally for her mentorship and teaching, as well as her blogging and public speaking. She was awarded the ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award in 2018, received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Black Women Physicians, and the 2022 AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion Exemplary Leadership Award alongside her mentor, Dr. Bussey-Jones. Most recently, the City of Atlanta honored her with the 2024 Spirit of Atlanta Award for her exemplary service to patients and learners. At Emory, Dr. Manning has received each one of the highest teaching awards and her work has been published in such prestigious journals as JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and The Lancet. In addition, her blog Reflections of a Grady Doctor was named one of the top four medical blogs by O the Oprah Magazine. She can be found on Twitter/X as @gradydoctor where she has over 100,000 followers.
Dr. Manning has a strong passion for storytelling as a means to build and strengthen diverse and humanistic clinical environments as well as cultivating psychologically safe learning climates. She is on the board of trustees for the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Hospital Medicine. In addition to being a prolific writer of narratives in high impact journals and on social media, she co-hosts a podcast called The Human Doctor.
The Inglewood, California native is a proud alumnus of two historically Black colleges—Tuskegee University and Meharry Medical College. She completed training in combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve/MetroHealth and served as chief resident. In addition to caring for patients on the teaching service at Grady Memorial Hospital, Dr. Manning is a happily married mother of two sons and an active member of several public service organizations including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She applies her lived experiences as a woman, mother, daughter, wife, sister, and community member to all that she does professionally.