Dr. Kimberly D. Manning is a general internist/hospitalist in the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, professor of medicine and vice chair of RYSE (DEI) initiatives, and immediate-past program director of Emory University’s transitional year residency program. Her clinical work is at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s safety net facility, where she has been for over two decades.

Dr. Manning is known for her innovative and mission-driven approach to medical education and has been recognized nationally for her mentorship and teaching, as well as her blogging and public speaking. She was awarded the ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award in 2018, the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Black Women Physicians, and the 2022 Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Diversity and Inclusion Exemplary Leadership Award alongside her mentor, Dr. Jada Bussey-Jones. At Emory, she has received the Evangeline Papageorge Award, the Golden Apple Teaching Award, and the Juha P. Kokko Teaching Award—the highest teaching awards in the School of Medicine, Grady Hospital, and Emory’s internal medicine residency program, respectively. Most recently, the City of Atlanta honored her with the 2024 Spirit of Atlanta Award for her exemplary service to patients and learners. Her work has been published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and The Lancet. Her blog, Reflections of a Grady Doctor, was named one of “four medical blogs you should read” by O the Oprah Magazine. Dr. Manning can be found on X as @gradydoctor, where she has over 100,000 followers.

Dr. Manning has a strong passion for storytelling to build and strengthen diverse and humanistic clinical environments, and cultivate psychologically safe learning climates. She is on the Board of Trustees for the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and is on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Hospital Medicine. She also co-hosts a podcast called The Human Doctor.

A native of Inglewood, California, Dr. Manning is a proud alumnus of two historically Black colleges—Tuskegee University and Meharry Medical College. She completed a residency in combined internal medicine-pediatrics at Case Western Reserve/MetroHealth, where she also served as chief resident. In addition to caring for patients on the teaching service at Grady Memorial Hospital, Dr. Manning is a happily married mother of two sons and an active member of several public service organizations, including Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She applies her lived experiences as a Black American woman, mother, daughter, wife, sister, and community member to all that she does professionally.