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Neil Calman, M.D.
NEIL CALMAN, M.D., is a Board Certified family physician who has been practicing in the Bronx and Manhattan for the past 30 years. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Family Health where he has served as President and CEO since 1983. Over the past 24 years the Institute has grown to include 15 Federally Qualified Health Centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and in the Mid-Hudson Valley, 8 sites to deliver health care to the homeless, 3 dental centers, 2 mental health centers, 2 school health centers, 2 free clinics and extensive home visitation programs to assist families in rural areas. These programs employ over 200 primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, dentists and mental health professionals. In addition, the Institute's family medicine residency programs have graduated more than 350 new family doctors with the special skills needed to take care of people in medically underserved urban and rural communities. The Institute's New York Center for Advanced Professional Development trains primary care faculty members and other health and management professionals from across the metropolitan area.
Dr. Calman has a long history of public service. He currently serves on the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education where he is Chair of the Health Reform and Finance Subcommittee and on the Pediatric Advisory Committee of the State Department of Health. He is also currently Chair of the Clinical Committee of the Community Health Care Association of New York State. Dr. Calman is a past President of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Calman is the recipient of three National awards for his work in Public Health: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Health Leadership Award, the American Academy of Family Physicians' Public Health Award and the Pew Charitable Trusts' Primary Care Achievement Award. Dr. Calman's work has been documented in three book chapters, Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care, by Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, To Give Their Gifts: Health, Community and Democracy, by Richard A. Couto and Caring for America, by John R. Stanard. In September 1999, Dr. Calman became the project director of a grant from the Centers for Disease Control to work towards eliminating racial and ethnic differences in health outcomes in the Bronx. His published essay Out of the Shadows (Health Affairs,Jan/Feb 2000) details his experiences in dealing with racism in the care of his patients. Making Health Equality a Reality: The Bronx Takes Action (Health Affairs, Mar/Apr 2005) describes the community based legislative action that has evolved from this grassroots effort to address institutional racism in medical care. The Institute is engaged in cutting-edge health services research. Grants from the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health and numerous foundations support the Institute's research programs.
In 2002, the Institute became one of the first community health center networks in the country to implement a fully integrated electronic medical record and practice management system, improving both preventive and chronic care treatment outcomes throughout its centers. In recognition of this achievement, Dr. Calman received the prestigious 2005 Physician's Information Technology Leadership Award, presented annually by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and this year the Institute won the HIMSS Davies Award in Public Health. Dr. Calman serves on the executive committee of the New York City Primary Care Health Information Consortium and on the Board of Directors of NYeC, the New York State's e-Health Collaborative.
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