Seminar: Primary Care Reform in the US - what can Australia take on board for our Primary Health Care 10 Year Plan?
On behalf of the UQ/MRI, Centre for Health System Reform & Integration, we would like to invite you to a presentation by Professor Robert L. Phillips, Founding Executive Director, The Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care & Value in Washington, DC.
Facilitator: Professor Claire Jackson, UQ/MRI, Director, Centre for Health System Reform & Integration
We would be pleased if you could join us for Professor Phillips’ presentation and follow-up discussion.
Please RSVP to g.vey@uq.edu.au by 16 October 2023, please confirm your attendance in person or via zoom and a meeting invite will follow.
Professor Robert L. Phillips, Jr., M.D., M.S.P.H.
Robert L. Phillips, Jr. (Bob) is the Founding Executive Director of The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care in Washington, DC. He is a practicing family physician with training in health services and primary care research. He is Professor of Family Medicine at both Georgetown University and Virginia Commonwealth University, Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University, and Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Center for Primary Care. His research seeks to inform clinical care and policies that support it. He leads a national primary care registry that partners with federal agencies and philanthropies to understand the impact of social determinants of health and the relationship between primary care practice and health outcomes.
Dr. Phillips completed medical school at the University of Florida where he graduated with honors for special distinction. He trained clinically in family medicine at the University of Missouri where he also completed a National Research Service Award fellowship. Dr Phillips has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, essays, editorials, and book chapters and co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine breakthrough report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: The Foundation of Health Care in 2021. The NASEM report is actively shaping health care policy in the United States.
Dr. Phillps has often served The US Department of Health and Human Services including as vice-chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education, co-chair of the Population Health subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and on the Negotiated Rule-Making Committee on Shortage Designation. Dr. Phillips was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2010 and currently serves as the chair of the NAM Membership Committee. He was a Fulbright Specialist to the Netherlands and New Zealand and has served as an international advisor to the Health Ministers of Australia and the Province of Alberta.