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Neil Calman, M.D.

President and CEO/Principal Investigator, Institute for Family Health

Neil Calman, MD, a family physician, is President and co-founder of the Institute for Family Health, an organization that has been providing primary care to underserved groups and operating health professional training programs for more than 20 years. In 1999, Dr. Calman became the Principal Investigator of the Bronx Health REACH project, a community-based program designed to eliminate racial disparities in health outcomes in the southwest Bronx.

Dr. Calman is widely published on issues related to race and health policy, including “Out of the Shadow” (Health Affairs) and “Separate and Unequal Care in New York City” (Journal of Health Care Law and Policy.) He is also committed to the use of health information technology to improve health outcomes in underserved communities and in 2006, he received the prestigious Physician’s Information Technology Leadership Award, presented annually by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Dr. Calman serves on the executive committee of the newly established citywide Primary Care Health Information Consortium and on the New York State Department of Health’s Information Technology Stakeholder Group Planning Committee. Dr. Calman is chair of the Health Reform and Finance Subcommittee the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education and the Clinical Committee of the Community Health Care Association of New York State.

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