MEET DR. BRIGGS-MALONSON
Medell Briggs-Malonson, MD, MPH, MSHS
Founder of Life@Peace Collective. Board-certified emergency medicine physician. Health system executive. Two decades caring for the people who care for everyone else.
A letter to those who carry the world.
Dear Friend,
I built Life@Peace Health because I know what it means to care for everyone else while quietly postponing your own care.
For two decades, I have lived in two worlds. As an emergency physician, I sat with families on the hardest days of their lives. As a health system executive, I led quality, safety, and equity strategy across hospitals and health systems. I learned how powerful excellent medicine can be. I also learned how easily the people with the most responsibility can be left with the least room to breathe.
I know this not as a theory, but as a life. So I built the practice I wished existed between emergency department shifts, executive meetings, family responsibilities, and all the moments when care for myself became the easiest thing to delay.
Life@Peace Health is a safe place where your physician has time for your story. Where your health is not separated from your stress, your purpose, your relationships, or your peace. Where you are not simply managed. You are known.
If you have spent a lifetime tending to others, I built this for you. I would be honored to walk beside you as you begin your renewal.
With deep respect and care,
~Dr. Medell
Medell Briggs-Malonson, MD, MPH, MSHS
Founder, Life@Peace Collective
A life of service — within and beyond medicine.
Dr. Medell Briggs-Malonson brings two decades of clinical, academic, and executive leadership experience to Life@Peace Health.
A board-certified emergency physician and senior health system executive, Dr. Briggs-Malonson has cared for people during some of life’s most urgent and vulnerable moments. She has also helped shape how care is delivered across major academic health systems, leading work in clinical quality, health equity, patient safety, and patient experience.
Her approach is grounded in both excellence and compassion. She understands what it means to make difficult decisions, carry great responsibility, lead under pressure, and still need a trusted place where your own health is thoughtfully protected and prioritized. Life@Peace Health was created from that understanding.
Throughout her career, Dr. Briggs-Malonson has cared for diverse patient populations, mentored emerging physicians and leaders, served communities across the United States, and built spaces where people feel seen, respected, and supported.
Life@Peace Health brings every chapter of her work together— medicine as a calling, leadership as service, and care as a deeply human expression of love, trust, and healing.
CREDENTIALS
Doctor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Master of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Master of Science in Health Services
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Bachelor of Science
UCLA
HONORS
Fierce Healthcare’s Fierce 50
Modern Healthcare’s Top Diversity Leaders
California Black Women Collective’s Trailblazing Legacy Award
Los Angeles Business Journal’s DEI Executive of the Year
National Medical Association’s Top Healthcare Professionals Under 40
