Vice President, Medical Affairs, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Carrie Herzke is vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this role, Dr. Herzke leads the efforts and initiatives of the credentialed medical staff at the hospital, as well as the departments of pharmacy and spiritual care, and provides oversight for hospital medical directors. She also collaborates with hospital leaders, departmental clinical directors and medical directors to direct and guide critical clinical services, strategically advance new programs and grow existing programs, and help ensure safe, efficient and patient-centered care.

Dr. Herzke has spent the majority of her medical career at Johns Hopkins, leaving for two years to become chief medical officer for the Charleston division of the Medical University of South Carolina before returning in April 2024.

A native of Virginia, Dr. Herzke earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Virginia and a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. She completed her residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center.

Following residency, she joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2008. Over the next 14 years, she cared for adult and pediatric patients as a hospitalist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and held several positions of increasing responsibility in the Department of Medicine, including clinical director of the hospitalist program in the Division of General Medicine and vice chair of inpatient operations. In 2017, she received her Master of Business Administration degree from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and in 2019, was named associate chief medical officer for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, a role she held until 2022.

As associate chief medical officer, Dr. Herzke played a key role during the COVID-19 pandemic in ensuring that patients were able to access the care they needed when and where they needed it. Her work was key to ensuring the appropriate placement of patients both with and without COVID-19, and contributed to the hospital achieving one of the lowest mortality rates from COVID-19 in the United States.

Dr. Herzke is a long-time member and leader within several national organizations, including the Society of Hospital Medicine and the Society of General Internal Medicine. She is also active within the Vizient CMO Executive Steering Committee and the Association of American Medical Colleges Chief Medical Officers’ Group.