Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH

Dr. Phillips is a family physician and practicing primary care physician with training in health services and primary care research. His research currently focuses on the relationship between primary care functions and teams with outcomes. He also runs a national primary care registry with related research on social determinants of health, rural health, and changes in primary care practice.

He completed medical school at the University of Florida where he graduated with honors for special distinction, trained clinically in family medicine at the University of Missouri, and completed a two-year National Research Service Award fellowship. Dr. Phillips is a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Virginia Commonwealth Universities and is Founding Executive Director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care in Washington, DC. He has published more than 250 research articles and related book chapters.

Dr. Phillips recently served as co-chair of the Population Health subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and as co-chair of the NASEM Consensus Study on Implementing High Quality Primary Care. He currently serves as the chair of the National Academy of Medicine Membership Committee.