Robert L. Phillips, Jr., MD, MSPH, graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, with honors for special distinction. He did residency training in family medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he remained for a research fellowship, completing a Masters of Science in Public Health. He has served on the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education and as the President of the National Residency Matching Program, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education. His research interests include physician-health system interactions and their effects on quality of care, geographic information systems, and collaborative care processes.
In 2004, Dr. Phillips became Director of the Robert Graham Center, a research center sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians that is dedicated to bringing a family practice and primary care perspective to health policy deliberations. He is on the faculties of the Department of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, Georgetown University and George Washington University, and practices medicine at Fairfax Family Practice Center.
He is married to Katherine A. Phillips, PhD, and they have three children, Blake, Ethan and Juliet.
