Heidi Overton

Heidi Overton currently serves as the Chief Policy Officer and Director of the Center for a Healthy America at the America First Policy Institute, a position held since April 2021. Previously, Heidi worked as a White House Fellow in the Office of American Innovation and Domestic Policy Council from August 2019 to January 2021. Heidi's medical training includes a General Surgery Residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, focused on surgical oncology and health policy, between July 2015 and August 2019. Heidi also served as a Student Regent on the University of New Mexico Board of Regents from January 2013 to May 2015, to which Heidi was appointed by Governor Susana Martinez. Heidi holds a PhD in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an MD from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, as well as a BA in Health, Medicine, and Human Values from the University of New Mexico.