Paul Grundy

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Paul Grundy is an American physician known as the "godfather" of 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 championed the medical home model with IBM colleagues Randy MacDonald, Dan Pelino, Sean Hogan and Nick Donofrio. Grundy developed strategies towards shifting healthcare delivery towards consumer-focused, primary-care based systems through the adoption of new philosophies, primary-care pilot programs, incentives systems, and the information technology. He is one of 38 IBMers and the only physician selected into the IBM Industry Academy.

Grundy is the founding president 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 Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is a founding board member of the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute.

A social entrepreneur and speaker on global healthcare transformation, Grundy continues to champion the concept of the Patient Centered Medical Home. His work has been reported in Forbes, the Economist, and the Huffington Post. Grundy has been invited to TED conference, 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 publishes 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