# Paul Grundy

Paul Grundy is an American physician who led the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and helped to create the Patient Centered Medical Home. He was named a member of the Institute of Medicine, and recipient of the Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award and the 2012 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Quality Award.
Grundy served as IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation and Chief Medical Officer of IBM's Healthcare and Life Science Industry. He promoted the medical home model during his time at IBM with Randy MacDonald, Dan Pelino, Sean Hogan, and Nick Donofrio. Grundy developed strategies for shifting healthcare delivery towards consumer-focused, primary care based systems through the adoption of new philosophies, primary care pilot programs, incentives systems, and information technology. He is one of 38 IBMers and the only physician selected into the IBM Industry Academy.
Grundy is the founding president, now chairman of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Departments of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine and the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is a founding board member of the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute.
Grundy is a social entrepreneur and speaker. specializing in global healthcare transformation. His work primarily centers on advocating for the Patient-Centered Medical Home model. His work has been reported in Forbes, the Economist, and the Huffington Post. Grundy spoke at TEDx Maastricht in a talk titled "Smarter healthcare by smarter use of data", or NHS Confederation conference, Foundation for Healthcare Transformation.
Grundy is the subject of a book on healthcare entitled Trusted Healers: Dr. Paul Grundy and the Global Healthcare Crusade by Dan Pelino with Bud Ramey, which was published in the fall of 2019. He is also a co-author of the book Lost and Found: A Consumer's Guide to Healthcare and The Familiar Physician by Dr. Peter B. Anderson, Bud Ramey, and Tom Emswiller. He is the featured physician in the 2015 book The Familiar Physician by Dr. Peter Anderson with Bud Ramey (co-author) and Tom Emswiller.

## Early life and education

Paul Grundy grew up in Sierra Leone, West Africa as the son of Quaker missionaries. He attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and earned his Master's Degree in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Grundy performed his residency training at Johns Hopkins in preventive medicine. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins in occupational health in the international environment.

## Career

From 1979 to 1985, Paul Grundy was a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he taught at the School of Aerospace Medicine. He also served as a flight surgeon and Chief of Hospital Services in Korea.
From 1985 to 1994, he was a regional medical officer and counselor of the embassy for medical affairs at the U.S. Department of State. As an Embassy Regional Medical Officer in 1985 he was stationed in the capital city of Sanaa, Yemen due to the severe and numerous health risks in Yemen at the time. In this role, Grundy was responsible for leading the interactions between health and diplomacy, successfully organizing such activities as the Clinton/Yeltsin health initiative, a $157 million bilateral initiative in Russia. In his role with the Department of State, he was responsible for advising United States Ambassadors on healthcare programs for diplomatic posts. Working closely with Nelson Mandela and Helene Gayle and State Department Tex Harris, he set up the first U.S. policy and program addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. He worked to organize a Congressional fact-finding mission on the extent of the HIV/AIDS problem and drafted the first bill in Congress dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Grundy finished his career in the Department of State as a Minister Counselor.
From 1994 to 1997, Grundy was the medical director of Adventist Health Systems, Pennsylvania, and the medical director for the largest occupational medicine program in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
From 1997 to 2000, he was the corporate occupational medical director for International SOS, providing and coordinating care and medical assistance for multinational corporations.
Grundy has served as a director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the body responsible for accrediting graduate medical training programs. Grundy is the president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a coalition that was established with the involvement of IBM in early 2006. The coalition is dedicated to advancing the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, a new approach to primary care aimed at reforming healthcare delivery. It represents employers covering approximately 50 million people across the United States as well as physician groups representing more than 330,000 medical doctors, consumer organizations, and the top seven US health-benefits companies.
Following his retirement in 2018 from IBM, Grundy accepted a role with Innovaccer, Inc. of San Francisco.
Paul Grundy currently serves as president and a member of the board of directors for the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute and Foundation, a non-profit "dedicated to ensure appropriate and personalized use of medication and gene therapies."

## Awards

Grundy won the 2016 Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award for his work and dedication to the medical home model of care. He also won the Tim Ferriss Globetrotter Award 2010 from VT. He received the Defense Superior Service Award for outstanding service addressing HIV/AIDS and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
Grundy was named an Ambassador for Healthcare Denmark in October 2014, a role in which he shares practices from the Danish Healthcare system with doctors in the United States and other parts of the world.