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Annual Conference Update: Dr. Richard Baron to Receive Barbara Starfield Award

 

Dr. Richard Baron to Receive PCPCC's Barbara Starfield Award

We are thrilled to announce that Richard J. Baron, MD will receive the PCPCC's Barbara Starfield Award during our annual conference in October 2013. Dr. Baron is the newly appointed President & CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and ABIM Foundation, after having served as the former Group Director, Seamless Care Models at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).

The award will recognize Dr. Baron’s exceptional primary care leadership and experience, both as a physician and public policy leader, while honoring Dr. Barbara Starfield's distinguished career and contribution to person-focused care and the medical home.

Dr. Baron has practiced general internal medicine and geriatrics for nearly three decades. In 1989 he founded Greenhouse Internists in Philadelphia, and expanded it to a seven-physician practice serving more than 10,000 patients. Dr. Baron also served as Chief Medical Officer of Health Partners from 1988 to 1996. He is the past recipient of the Pennsylvania Laureate Award and was named a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2010.  Dr. Baron received his medical degree from Yale and is board certified in internal medicine and in geriatric medicine.

The award will be presented on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 from 8:30 – 9:00 AM at the PCPCC’s Annual Fall Conference in Bethesda, MD.

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