Dr. Paul Grundy
Director, Healthcare Transformation
IBM
Dr. Paul Grundy
Director, Healthcare Transformation
IBM
Dr. Paul Grundy MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM is IBM's Director of Healthcare, Technology and Strategic Initiatives for IBM Global Wellbeing Services and Health Benefits, part of IBM's Corporate Headquarters Human Resources group. Prior to joining to IBM, Dr. Grundy worked as a senior diplomat in the US State Department supporting the intersection of health and diplomacy. He was also the Medical Director for the International SOS, the world's largest medical assistance company and for Adventist Health Systems, the second-largest not-for-profit medical system in the world.
Dr. Grundy attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco and trained at Johns Hopkins University. He has work extensively in AIDS, including writing the United States' first piece of legislation addressing AIDS Education in Africa.
Dr. Grundy's numerous awards include: the Department of State Superior Honor Award for handling the crisis surrounding the two attempted coups in Russia and the Department of State Superior Honor Award for work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Dr. Grundy presently serves on The Medical Education Futures Study National Advisory Board and is Chairman of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a coalition he lead IBM in creating in early 2006. The PCPCC is dedicated to advancing a new primary-care model called the Patient-Centered Medical Home as a means of fundamentally reforming healthcare delivery, which in turn is essential to maintaining US international competitiveness. Today, the PCPCC represents employers of some 50 million people across the United States as well as physician groups representing more than 330,000 medical doctors, leading consumer groups and, most recently, the top seven US health-benefits companies. Dr. Grundy is also the Chair of Health Policy of the ERISA Industry Committee.
Dr. David Kendrick
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Medical Informatics
Kaiser Chair of Community Medicine
University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine
David Kendrick, MD, MPH is an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics and a Kaiser Chair of Community Medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine (SOCM). As the medical director for community medical informatics, Dr. Kendrick is charged with defining and implementing healthcare information systems strategy for the SOCM and the community it serves. In particular, Dr. Kendrick is developing systems required to support medical homes and to connect them with one another in ways that measurably improve the lives of patients and ultimately the entire community.
Prior to joining the SOCM faculty, Dr. Kendrick was medical director for Archimedes, Inc. a healthcare start-up company founded by David Eddy to leverage mathematics and modeling to improve decision-making in healthcare at all levels. As medical director and co-principle investigator on the Archimedes Healthcare Simulator (ARCHeS) project, Dr. Kendrick worked closely with mathematicians and software engineers, providing clinical context for the validation and extension of the Archimedes Model, and guiding the development of the ARCHeS platform.
Early in his medical training, Dr. Kendrick created a software system to facilitate communications between healthcare providers. This product became the launching pad for a medical software company that continues to provide telemedicine, electronic medical record, patient portal and distance education services to patients and providers worldwide. Designed on a "software as a service" model, these systems are used primarily by safety-net providers and correctional institutions.
Dr. Kendrick holds degrees in chemical engineering, medicine and public health and practices internal medicine and pediatrics. He has formal training in medical informatics focused on the use of models and simulations to quantify the value of healthcare strategies, and he has authored and co-authored several publications about health information technology and disease and healthcare system simulations. He is currently principle investigator of the Doc2Doc Study, a cluster randomized controlled trial of the use of electronic systems to coordinate the care patients receive as they move through the healthcare system.
Dr. Daniel Duffy
Senior Associate Dean for Academics
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Community Medicine Track
University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine
Dr. Daniel Duffy is the Senior Associate Dean for Academics, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Director of the Community Medicine Track at the OU School of Community Medicine, Tulsa. He is the former Senior Advisor to the President of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Duffy returned to Tulsa and OU in 2006 after 10-years on the staff of ABIM where he led the introduction of a new process for physician Maintenance of Certification based on evaluation of performance in practice. He held an adjunct professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Internal Medicine and was a volunteer teacher at Philadelphia medical schools. Dr. Duffy served as a regent for the American College of Physicians from 1992-98, chair of the Board of Governors from 1991-92, and as Oklahoma governor for the College from 1988-91. He was Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa where he was honored with the Stanton L. Young Master Teacher Award in 1989 and several awards from students and residents for excellence in teaching.
Dr. Duffy was a founding member of the American Academy on Communications in Healthcare, is a fellow of the Academy and is a past chair of the Board of Directors. He was chair of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine from 1991-97. For his contributions to internal medicine, the American College of Physicians awarded Mastership in 1999 and the Association of Professors of Medicine awarded a Lifetime Service Award in Internal Medicine in 2006. He served on the Ambulatory Measures Steering Committee of the National Quality Forum and on the Performance Measurement Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties. He is a consultant in healthcare organizational design and expert in physician education, healthcare communications, and quality assessment and improvement.
Dr. Duffy is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, received his medical degree from Temple University Medical School and completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.