Paul Grundy
{{short description|American healthcare administrator}}
{{for|the Australian engineer|Paul Grundy (engineer)}}
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| education = University of California, San Francisco
University of California, Berkeley
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Paul Grundy is an American physician who led the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and contributed to the development of the medical home model model.{{Cite journal |date=May-June 2009 |title=Primary Care Model Gains Momentum |url=http://elizabethgardner.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Doctors-Digest-Primary-Care-and-the-Medical-Home-May-June-2009.pdf |journal=Doctor's Digest: Primary Care and the Medical Home |pages=13-14}} He is a member of the Institute of Medicine,{{Cite web|url=http://iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/2012-New-Members.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807044625/http://iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/2012-New-Members.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-08-07|title=IOM Elects 70 New Members, 10 Foreign Associates - Institute of Medicine|date=2013-08-07|access-date=2019-08-12}} a recipient of the Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award,{{Cite web|url=https://pcpccevents.com/awards-dinner/|title=Barbara Starfield Awards Dinner|website=Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Events|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-12}} and the 2012 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Quality Award.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncqa.org/Sponsorship/ConferenceSponsorshipPackage/2012HealthQualityAwardsDinner.aspx|title=NCQA}}
He served as IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation and Chief Medical Officer of IBM's Healthcare and Life Science Industry.{{Cite web|url=http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/mappinghumanity/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403015533/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/mappinghumanity/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 3, 2012|title=IBM100 - The Mapping of Humanity's Family Tree|date=2012-03-07|website=www-03.ibm.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-12}} During his time at IBM, he worked with Randy MacDonald, Dan Pelino, Sean Hogan, and Nick Donofrio to promote the medical home model model.{{Cite web|url=http://www-304.ibm.com/businesscenter/cpe/html0/166467.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828012347/http://www-304.ibm.com/businesscenter/cpe/html0/166467.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-08-28|title=IBM - Healthcare reform relies on IT and prevention|date=2009-08-28|access-date=2019-08-12}} Grundy developed strategies for shifting healthcare delivery towards consumer-focused, primary care based systems through the adoption of new philosophies,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/business/29doctor.html|title=Study Details the 'Invisible' Work Burden of Family Doctors|last=Lohr|first=Steve|date=2010-04-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} primary care pilot programs,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/business/07medhome.html|title=UnitedHealth and I.B.M. Test Health Care Plan|last=Abelson|first=Reed|date=2009-02-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} incentives systems,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/business/21medhome.html|title=Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors' Fees|last=Freudenheim|first=Milt|date=2008-07-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} and information technology. He is one of 38 IBM employees and the only physician selected into the IBM Industry Academy.{{Cite web|date=2014-08-11|title=IBM Industry Academy, Paul Grundy|url=http://www.ecri.org/Documents/Conferences/2012_TA_Conf/P_Grundy_bio.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811185120/https://www.ecri.org/Documents/Conferences/2012_TA_Conf/P_Grundy_bio.pdf|archive-date=2014-08-11|access-date=2019-08-12}}
He is the founding president,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pcpcc.org/profile/paul-grundy|title=Paul Grundy {{!}} Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative|website=www.pcpcc.org|access-date=2019-08-12}} and current chairman of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Departments of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine and at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} He is a founding board member of the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://gtmr.org/about/gtmr-board-of-directors/|title=GTMRx Institute Board of Directors|website=Get The Medications Right|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-12}}
Grundy is a speaker whose work focuses on global healthcare transformation.{{Citation|title=TEDxMaastricht Paul Grundy: Smarter healthcare by smarter use of data| date=April 2, 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npc0PLcYyxM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/npc0PLcYyxM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-08-12}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.slideshare.net/DrGrundy|title=Paul Grundy|website=www.slideshare.net|language=en|access-date=2019-08-12}} His work primarily centers on advocating for the Patient-Centered Medical Home model and has been reported in Forbes,{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/davechase/2012/08/27/primary-care-spring-unleashed-by-ibm/|title=IBM Unleashes "Primary Care Spring"|last=Chase|first=Dave|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-08-12}} Economist,{{Cite web|url=http://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp033.nsf/v16_speakers?openform&seminar=B9EKMEES&locale=en_ZZ&S_TACT=103FR01M|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040027/https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp033.nsf/v16_speakers?openform&seminar=B9EKMEES&locale=en_ZZ&S_TACT=103FR01M|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-08-08|title=IBM - : The Economist's Healthcare in Asia 2013|date=2014-08-08|access-date=2019-08-12}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.economistconferences.asia/video/healthcare-asia-2013-summit/1504|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130627204640/http://www.economistconferences.asia/video/healthcare-asia-2013-summit/1504|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-06-27|title=Healthcare in Asia 2013 summit {{!}} Economist Conferences Asia|date=2013-06-27|website=archive.is|access-date=2019-08-12}} and the Huffington Post.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/author/dr-paul-grundy|title=Dr. Paul Grundy {{!}} HuffPost|website=www.huffpost.com|language=en|access-date=2019-08-12}} Grundy spoke at TEDx Maastricht in a talk titled "Smarter healthcare by smarter use of data", and at the NHS Confederation conference and Foundation for Healthcare Transformation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ivs.no/admin/uploadfiles/The_Patient_Centered_Home.pdf|title=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.{{Cite book|title=Trusted Healers|date=10 September 2019|isbn=978-1633936843|last1=Pelino|first1=Dan|publisher=Koehler Books }} 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.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Paul Grundy, "Godfather of the Patient-Centered Medical Home", Joins NexJ Health as Senior Fellow – NexJ Health |url=https://www.nexjhealth.com/blog/dr-paul-grundy-godfather-of-the-patient-centered-medical-home-joins-nexj-health-as-senior-fellow/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |language=en-US}}
Early life and education
Paul Grundy grew up in Sierra Leone, West Africa as the son of Quaker missionaries.{{Cite web |title=Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM (Primary Care) |url=https://gtmr.org/team/paul-grundy-md-mph-facoem-facpm-primary-care/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Get The Medications Right |language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Found-Consumers-Guide-Healthcare-ebook/dp/B01830DBSQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451727185&sr=8-1&keywords=lost+and+found+grundy|title=Lost and Found: A Consumer's Guide to Healthcare|website=www.amazon.com|access-date=2019-08-12}} He attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and earned his Master's Degree in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Grundy performed his residency training at Johns Hopkins in preventive medicine and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins in occupational health in the international environment.{{Cite web |title=Paul Grundy |url=https://thepcc.org/profiles/paul-grundy/ |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=PCC |language=en-US}}
Career
From 1979 to 1985, Paul Grundy was a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he taught at the School of Aerospace Medicine, served as a flight surgeon, and was Chief of Hospital Services in Korea.
From 1985 to 1994, he was a regional medical officer and counselor of the embassy for medical affairs at the U.S. Department of State.{{Cite web |last=Innovaccer |title=Founding President of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, Dr. Paul Grundy Joins Innovaccer as Chief Transformation Officer to Revolutionize US Healthcare |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/founding-president-of-the-patient-centered-primary-care-collaborative-dr-paul-grundy-joins-innovaccer-as-chief-transformation-officer-to-revolutionize-us-healthcare-300786092.html |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}} As an Embassy Regional Medical Officer in 1985 he was stationed in Sanaa, Yemen due to the health risks in Yemen at the time.Keiswetter, Allen L., "Oral History Project Interview". Interview by David Ruther. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2010, https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Keiswetter-Allen-L.pdf Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.Collins, James F., "Oral History Project Interview Part II". Interview by Charles Stuart Kennedy. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs, 15 July. 2003, https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Collins.James.Pt2.pdf Accessed 9 Mar. 2025. In this role, Grundy was responsible for leading the interactions between health and diplomacy, organizing activities such as the Clinton/Yeltsin health initiative, a $157 million bilateral initiative in Russia. He advised United States Ambassadors on healthcare programs for diplomatic posts. Working closely with Nelson Mandela and Helene Gayle and State Department Tex Harris, he set up the first U.S. policy and program addressing the HIV/AIDS{{Cite web|url=https://www.pcpcc.org/|title=Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative|website=www.pcpcc.org|access-date=2019-08-12}}{{Failed verification|date=January 2025}} epidemic in Africa. He worked to organize a Congressional fact-finding mission on the extent of the HIV/AIDS problem and drafted the first bill in Congress dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Grundy finished his career in the Department of State as a Minister Counselor.
From 1994 to 1997, Grundy was the medical director of Adventist Health Systems, Pennsylvania, and the medical director for the largest occupational medicine program in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
From 1997 to 2000, he was the corporate occupational medical director for International SOS, providing and coordinating care and medical assistance for multinational corporations.
Grundy has served as a director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/27/world/aids-rising-fast-among-black-south-africans.html|title=AIDS Rising Fast Among Black South Africans|last=Wren|first=Christopher S.|date=1990-09-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} the body responsible for accrediting graduate medical training programs. Grundy is the president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a coalition that was established with the involvement of IBM in early 2006 and is dedicated to advancing the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, an approach to primary care aimed at reforming healthcare delivery. It represents employers covering approximately 50 million people across the United States as well as physician groups representing more than 330,000 medical doctors, consumer organizations, and seven US health-benefits companies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.acgme.org/acgmeweb/About/BoardofDirectors.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529155647/http://www.acgme.org/acgmeweb/About/BoardofDirectors.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-05-29|title=ACGME > About > Board of Directors|date=2013-05-29|access-date=2019-08-12}}
Following his retirement in 2018 from IBM, Grundy accepted a role with Innovaccer, Inc. of San Francisco.
Paul Grundy currently serves as president and a member of the board of directors for the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute and Foundation, a non-profit "dedicated to ensure appropriate and personalized use of medication and gene therapies."{{Cite web|url=https://gtmr.org/about/|title=About|website=Get The Medications Right|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-12}}{{cite web |url=https://gtmr.org/primary-care-advocate-paul-grundy-md-named-interim-president-of-gtmrx-institute/ |website=GTMRx |access-date=14 May 2021|title=Primary care advocate Paul Grundy, MD, named interim president of GTMRX Institute |date=March 23, 2020 }}
Awards
Grundy won the 2016 Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award{{Cite book|title=The Familiar Physician: Saving Your Doctor In the Era of Obamacare|date=September 2013|isbn=978-1614487371|last1=Anderson|first1=Peter B.|publisher=Morgan James }} for his work on the medical home model of care. He also won the Tim Ferriss Globetrotter Award 2010 from VT. He received the Defense Superior Service Award for his service addressing HIV/AIDS and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
Grundy was named an Ambassador for Healthcare Denmark in October 2014,{{Cite web|url=https://www.uab.edu/shp/hsa/continuing-education|title=UAB - SHP- Health Services Administration - Continuing Education|website=UAB|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-12}} a role in which he shares practices from the Danish Healthcare system with doctors in the United States and other parts of the world.{{Cite web|url=http://finance.yahoo.com/news/healthcare-denmark-names-next-wave-130000800.html|title=Healthcare Denmark Names Next Wave Connect Chairman Ivo Nelson as Ambassador to Strategic International Summit in Copenhagen|website=finance.yahoo.com|date=October 23, 2014 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-12}}
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