At MedReimagined we believe every community has the right to choose whom they will trust with their healthcare. We help communities create pipelines of the homegrown aspiring medical professionals they need most - so that every community trusts their health providers and believes they can lead the world in health outcomes.
Our Founding Team
Damien Myers MD MPH
Co-Founder, Chief Executive & Medical Officer
“For more than a decade, I’ve taught hundreds of aspiring medical professionals and a half dozen MDs. But we need a better way. There are 55,000 missing Black doctors.”
Damien Myers, MD, MPH left clinical medicine in 2010 to teach and cultivate the next generation of Black health professionals.
In the process he created the MedReimagined curriculum and expanded beyond his all-girls high school to teach an intensive medical school curriculum for middle and high school scholars in Baltimore. He received the President’s Volunteer Service Award from President Obama in 2016 for his efforts in creating more caring, prosperous communities, and the Elijah Saunders MD Trailblazer Award for his efforts in creating more diversity in the medical pathway. He serves on the board of trustees for the University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, Associated Black Charities and for The SEED School of Maryland. He has lived in 13 states but has called Baltimore home since 2008.
Khalid Smith
Co-Founder, Chief Innovation & Engineering Officer
“MedReimagined exists to help communities create their own public health initiatives to train the aspiring physicians they need most & reclaim their God given right to health equity”
Khalid Smith is a serial entrepreneur and builder of brands, communities and tech that disrupt the roots of injustice.
Joining forces with his friend Dr. Myers, they began redesigning the summer camps into virtual programming during the pandemic. Khalid previously was a brand manager for Procter and Gamble, founded Lessoncast Learning, a teacher-learning organization cultivating equitable learning environments and experiences. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MS in Applied Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the board of Greenstreet Charter School in West Baltimore and was the founding education director of StartupWeekend Education. Khalid lives in Baltimore, and is the proud father of Elijah and Nala.
Our Scholars are our Success
LeShia Davis-Johnson is a first-year medical student at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky.
Sabreenah Khan is a first year medical student at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Medical School in Bethesda, Maryland.
Khusmanie Lila is a registered nurse (RN) with the Johns Hopkins Hospital medical surgical unit also pursuing her doctorate of nursing practice at the JHU School of Nursing.
Kayla Adams is a 2014 Alumnus of the MedReimagined program and is a pediatric nurse with Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Lateshia Scott is a 2017 MedReimagined alumni and a public health nurse with Baltimore City.
Morgan, a 2014 alum credits the MedReimagined program with having influenced her drive for success. She is currently a mechanical engineer with Northrup Grumman.
Karen Hernandez is a 2016 alumni community health worker and former MedReimagined instructor who plans to continue on to medical school.
Deboreah, a 2015 alumni combined her love of business and marketing with STEM working for the JHU Whiting School of Engineering.