Robert L. Phillips, Jr., MD, MSPH is a family physician and Director of the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in Washington, DC. The Graham Center functions as a division of the American Academy of Family Physicians, with editorial independence, and is staffed by a small research team focused on providing evidence to help inform policy-making.
Dr. Phillips is a graduate of the Missouri University for Science and Technology and the University of Florida College of Medicine, and did residency training at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He completed a two-year NRSA research fellowship and practiced in a federal housing Federally Qualified Health Center in Boone County, Missouri. He now practices part-time in a community-based residency program in Fairfax, Va.
Dr. Phillips has faculty appointments at Georgetown University, George Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He recently served as Vice-Chair of the U.S. Council on Graduate Medical Education, and was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Federal Negotiated Rule Making Committee on Health Workforce Shortage Redesignation. Dr. Phillips was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2010.
