Linda Thomas-Hemak

Linda Thomas-Hemak is president and chief executive officer of The Wright Center for Community Health and The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education.

After graduating as a Michael DeBakey Scholar from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and completing Harvard’s Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program in Boston, she joined The Wright Center in 2001 and became president in 2007 and CEO in 2012. Concurrent with her responsibilities as an executive, Dr. Thomas-Hemak is also quadruple board-certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, addiction medicine, and obesity medicine and remains a healer at heart. She sees patients at The Wright Center for Community Health’s Mid Valley Practice, treating and caring for multiple generations of families, neighbors, and friends. This active and passionate engagement with her primary care patients and perspective as a hands-on medical practitioner, she firmly believes, helps enlighten and empower her executive decision-making.

A founding board member of the Scranton-based Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Dr. Thomas-Hemak is actively involved in multiple organizations, countless committees, and nonprofit boards and workgroups aimed at benefiting the community, generating efficiencies in health care delivery, and promoting primary health care workforce development, both regionally and nationally.