Dr. Alex Jones Adesina
Chief Impact Officer, Waco Family Medicine and Prosper Waco Board Member
Dr. Jones Adesina is the inaugural Chief Impact Officer at Waco Family Medicine whose primary role is to set the vision of equitable health care delivery by managing programs that address social drivers of health, maternal health outcomes, and staff equity initiatives. Her ongoing vision is to make transformational systems change to eliminate health outcome disparities while caring for patients throughout their lives.
A Waco native, Dr. Jones Adesina practices family medicine after spending time in Chicago where she taught with Teach [F]or America before starting medical and public health school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and then completing family medicine residency in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones Adesina leverages her insights and experiences in providing patient care to inform equity initiatives. In her time, she expanded the Food as Medicine Program, which started as a food prescription and now includes food bank distribution in clinic settings, a community-led garden, and shared medical visits with a chef educator. In her spare time, Dr. Jones Adesina enjoys time with her family, reading, cooking and traveling. Most recently, she enjoyed a magical trip to Paris for the Paris Olympics.
