Paul Grundy

Paul Grundy is an American physician who led the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and helped to create the Patient Centered Medical Home. He was named a member of the Institute of Medicine, and recipient of the Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award and the 2012 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Quality Award.

Grundy served as IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation and Chief Medical Officer of IBM's Healthcare and Life Science Industry. He promoted the medical home model during his time at IBM with Randy MacDonald, Dan Pelino, Sean Hogan, and Nick Donofrio. Grundy developed strategies for shifting healthcare delivery towards consumer-focused, primary care based systems through the adoption of new philosophies, primary care pilot programs, incentives systems, and information technology. He is one of 38 IBMers and the only physician selected into the IBM Industry Academy.

Grundy is the founding president, now chairman of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Departments of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is a founding board member of the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute.

Grundy is a social entrepreneur and speaker. specializing in global healthcare transformation. His work primarily centers on advocating for the Patient-Centered Medical Home model. His work has been reported in Forbes, the Economist, and the Huffington Post. Grundy spoke at TEDx Maastricht in a talk titled "Smarter healthcare by smarter use of data", or NHS Confederation conference, Foundation for Healthcare Transformation.

Grundy is the subject of a book on healthcare entitled '''''Trusted Healers: Dr. Paul Grundy and the Global Healthcare Crusade'' by Dan Pelino with Bud Ramey, which was published in the fall of 2019. He is also a co-author of the book ''Lost and Found: A Consumer's Guide to Healthcare'' and ''The Familiar Physician'' by Dr. Peter B. Anderson, Bud Ramey, and Tom Emswiller. He is the featured physician in the 2015 book ''The Familiar Physician'' by Dr. Peter Anderson with Bud Ramey (co-author) and Tom Emswiller.''' Provided by Wikipedia