Department of Family Medicine
Providing the Best Care for Families
We provide continuing and comprehensive care for individuals in the
context of family and community. Our faculty are
nationally known leaders in
defining the future of primary care quality as evidenced by our involvement
in Family Medicine practice-based research, several recent Institute of Medicine
committees, and the Future of Family Medicine
Project.
Departmental programs are organized by our core
missions: Clinical, Educational, and Research.
Our clinical programs
include four
Family Medicine
practices, inpatient care, student health, medical
coverage at the CeDAR substance treatment facility, cosmetics
services, sports medicine
clinics and team physician responsibilities, geriatric
medicine,
and palliative care in the inpatient, hospice and home
setting.
Our educational
programs include three separately accredited family
medicine residencies,
fellowships, and a thriving
predoctoral program. We
also direct the School of Medicine's
Rural Track, and
direct or co-direct two of the clinical blocks in the predoctoral curriculum. One of our residencies is a P4 (Preparing
Personal Physicians for Practice) residency training innovation site.
Our research program
supports three
practice-based research
networks, and we are affiliated with
several additional networks. We have recently launched 2040
Partners for Health, a community-based participatory
research program in the communities adjacent to our new
Anschutz Medical Campus.
Leadership for the department is structured as an
Executive Committee:
- Frank V. deGruy, III, MD, Chair
- Colleen Conry, MD, Senior Vice-chair
- Kent Voorhees, MD,
Vice Chair for Educational Programs
- David West, PhD, Vice Chair for Research Programs
- Mary Lutz, Department Administrator
By the Numbers
- Faculty: We currently have 118 regular faculty
and over 500 volunteer faculty across Colorado.
- Research Activities: Awards in the amount of
$5,385,658 were made to the Department of Family
Medicine July, 2007 - May, 2008, and $3,096,889 for July - September, 2008.
- Residencies & Fellowships: Our residencies and
fellowships educate over 55 trainees per year.
- Medical Students: Our programs and faculty touch
nearly every one of the over 600 medical students in all 4 years of the curriculum.
- Clinical Care: Our four Family Medicine
practices see over 70,000 visits per year.