Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH
Executive Director, The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care
American Board of Family Medicine Foundation
Professor, Georgetown University
Dr. Phillips is a family physician and practicing primary care physician with training in health services and primary care research. His work strives to change the health care environment through research and policy so that clinicians can work with greater joy and so that patients and communities can experience better health. He also runs a national primary care registry with related research on social determinants of health, rural health, and changes in primary care practice.
Dr. Phillips grew up in a rural shortage area where his mother served as a county nurse advisor before she completed her NP degree. He completed medical school at the University of Florida where he graduated with honors for special distinction, trained clinically in family medicine at the University of Missouri, and completed a two-year National Research Service Award fellowship. Dr. Phillips is a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Virginia Commonwealth Universities and is Founding Executive Director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care in Washington, DC. He has published more than 250 research articles and book chapters.
Dr. Phillips recently served as co-chair of the Population Health subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and as co-chair of the NASEM Consensus Study on Implementing High Quality Primary Care. He currently serves as the chair of the National Academy of Medicine Membership Committee.
Executive Director, The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care
American Board of Family Medicine Foundation
Professor, Georgetown University
Dr. Phillips is a family physician and practicing primary care physician with training in health services and primary care research. His work strives to change the health care environment through research and policy so that clinicians can work with greater joy and so that patients and communities can experience better health. He also runs a national primary care registry with related research on social determinants of health, rural health, and changes in primary care practice.
Dr. Phillips grew up in a rural shortage area where his mother served as a county nurse advisor before she completed her NP degree. He completed medical school at the University of Florida where he graduated with honors for special distinction, trained clinically in family medicine at the University of Missouri, and completed a two-year National Research Service Award fellowship. Dr. Phillips is a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Virginia Commonwealth Universities and is Founding Executive Director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care in Washington, DC. He has published more than 250 research articles and book chapters.
Dr. Phillips recently served as co-chair of the Population Health subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and as co-chair of the NASEM Consensus Study on Implementing High Quality Primary Care. He currently serves as the chair of the National Academy of Medicine Membership Committee.
