Dr. Fairchild is professor of medicine at UMass Medical School and the Chief Medical Officer at MinuteClinic, the clinical arm of CVS Health. He is also a volunteer with Health Care Without Walls, a nonprofit dedicated to providing free, compassionate medical care, education, and advocacy to homeless women and children in Greater Boston. In addition to being a practicing general internist for 30 years, Dr. Fairchild has served in various capacities at several academic health systems. While at UMass Memorial Health Care, he served as the SVP for Population Health and President of their Medicare ACO. Prior to joining the UMass system in 2011, he was Chief Medical Officer at Tufts Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Before moving to Tufts in 2003, Dr. Fairchild was the Director of Primary Care Services at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After completing his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut and an additional year there as Chief Resident, Dr. Fairchild spent 3 years on the Navajo Reservation as a physician in the Indian Health Service, serving as the Chief of Staff of his IHS hospital in Chinle, Arizona. He is board-certified in internal medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. In July 2019, Dr. Fairchild joined CVS Health, where he oversees all clinical services in 1100 MinuteClinics around the U.S.

Dr. Fairchild served as Editor-in-Chief of Physician’s First Watch from its inception in 2006 until its closure in April 2021.

Information about Dr. Fairchild was up to date at the time of his last affiliation with Physician's First Watch.