Richard Safeer

Dr. Safeer is the Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-being for Johns Hopkins Medicine. In this role, he leads the Healthy at Hopkins employee health and well-being strategy. He also currently sees patients in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Cardiology department. In addition, he teaches in the Department of Healthy, Behavior and Society in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Richard completed his Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University before graduating from medical school at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at Franklin Square Hospital Center, in Baltimore, Maryland. After which, he completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at the Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also certified in Clinical Lipidology by the National Lipid Association. Prior to arriving at Hopkins, Dr. Safeer practiced family medicine in Northern Virginia. He was then on faculty at the George Washington University, where he served as the Associate Residency Director of the Family Medicine training program. He was the Medical Director of an Occupational Health Center in Baltimore and Wellness Director for the Mid-Atlantic region of the parent company, just before starting at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Baltimore, Maryland as the Medical Director of Preventive Medicine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has achieved Fellowship status in the American Academy of Family Medicine, the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.