About Dr. Chomilo
Out here trying to HEAL our kids, communities & health care systems
Nathan T. Chomilo is a husband, father, son, brother, pediatrician, internist, associate professor & nationally recognized health care & public health leader whose work centers marginalized communities in health policy so that we can dismantle racism in health care & public health to provide children & families an equitable opportunity for health & well-being.
He is currently the Medical Director for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid & MinnesotaCare programs & still practices as a General Pediatrician. He was previously tapped to serve as the State of MN’s COVID-19 vaccine equity director & as Senior Advisor on Equity to the Minnesota Commissioner of Health. He received a Zoology degree from Miami University & graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed his combined residency in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics at the University of MN & was a Pediatric Chief Resident at the U of MN. Prior to working for the State of MN he was also an internal medicine hospitalist.
He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the U of MN Medical School & has served on the board of directors for the MN chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) & as Chair of the national AAP’s Council on Health Equity. He currently serves on the board of directors of Reach Out & Read & is a member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) Equity in HEDIS Expert Work Group.
He has penned published OpEds & peer-reviewed health policy perspective pieces, been an invited speaker at multiple national conferences & cited in pieces in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, New York Times, Wall St. Journal, The Atlantic, STAT news, CNN.com, Parent Magazine & the Star Tribune. In 2022 he was the invited keynote speaker at the University of MN School of Public Health’s commencement.
His work has been recognized by the City of Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights as a 2019 History Maker at Home recipient, Minnesota Physician which named him one of the 100 most influential health care leaders in 2020 & 2024, Minnesota Medical Association which awarded him the President’s Award in 2021, the Task Force for Global Health which named him a 2021 Global Health Hero & the Aspen Institute which selected him as an Ascend Fellow in 2022. He was a consensus committee member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s 2024 report Launching Lifelong Health. In 2025 he was among the inaugural inductees into Eden Prairie High School’s Hall of Fame. In 2026 he was selected as a Milbank Memorial Fund Fellow.
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