Primary School Launched in October 2010 with a $30 million gift from an anonymous donor, the HMS Center for Primary Care is taking on the challenge of transforming primary care medicine, improving the training of the field’s practitioners and leaders, and supporting the development of innovative systems in health care delivery. The Center represents a vibrant community of students, faculty, allied health professionals, and staff at its affiliated clinical sites. In this interview, Russell Phillips, the Center’s director and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Andrew Ellner ’04, Center codirector and an HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, talk about primary care, family medicine, and the overall goals of the Center. 18 harvard medicine ~ winter 2013
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The new HMS Center for Primary Care brings leadership, innovation to a field in flux interview by Jake Miller
CARE COLLABORATIVE: The HMS Center for Primary Care, led by Russell Phillips (right) and Andrew Ellner, taps a wide network of talented professionals keen on improving the delivery of primary care medicine.
