About
Anne Pereira, MD
MD, MPH, FACP, ACC · ICF Certified Executive Coach · Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School · Palliative Medicine Physician, Hennepin Healthcare
Anne is a practicing palliative medicine physician at Hennepin Healthcare, Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and an ICF-certified executive coach trained through Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership. Since 2023, she has coached more than twenty academic and operational leaders. Her coaching practice grows out of two decades of leadership in academic medicine — work that has shaped how she shows up for the leaders she now coaches.
A coaching practice rooted in lived leadership
After earning her MD and completing her internal medicine training, Anne completed a fellowship in academic general internal medicine, followed by an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her first leadership role was as Assistant Program Director of the Brigham and Women's–Harvard Pilgrim primary care internal medicine residency, before she was recruited back to Minnesota to lead the internal medicine residency at Hennepin Healthcare.
During her decade leading that residency, she founded Minnesota's first combined emergency medicine–internal medicine residency program, which continues to train outstanding physicians today. She also led her program through the ACGME's Educational Innovations Project, a national consortium of twenty internal medicine residencies that served as the laboratory for the early development of the Next Accreditation System — work that helped reshape how the ACGME accredits training programs nationwide.
Reshaping medical education
In 2014, Anne stepped into undergraduate medical education as the first Assistant Dean for Clinical Education at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She and her team completely redesigned clinical training to better prepare students for the demands of residency. She was subsequently promoted to Assistant Dean for Curriculum, where she led the entire medical school curriculum and prepared the school for its LCME site visit. In recognition of her scholarly and leadership contributions, she was promoted to Professor of Medicine in 2020.
A return to the bedside
In 2020, Anne stepped down from her dean role to pursue a long-held dream of training in palliative medicine. She completed her palliative fellowship in 2021 and returned to Hennepin Healthcare to practice and to direct trainee education in the discipline. She continues to see patients today — work that keeps her close to the realities her coaching clients are leading through.
Rebuilding a department after the pandemic
In 2022, Anne was asked to step in as interim chair of the 350-member Department of Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare. The department had seen an unprecedented number of physicians and advanced practice providers depart in the aftermath of COVID. Over the course of her interim year, she led a regeneration: hiring 42 new clinicians and championing reforms that recentered the value and wellbeing of every member of the medical staff.
Why coaching, why now
In 2023, Anne stepped down from her interim chair role to focus on leadership coaching and clinical palliative medicine. She wishes to spend this phase of her career giving back through supporting clinician leaders in their critically important, often deeply challenging work.
She coaches because she has lived the work — and because she believes clinician leaders deserve better support than most of us got.
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