Neil Calman, MD, President and CEO, Institute for Family Health (Secretary)

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. The Institute operates 16 community health centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and the Hudson Valley of New York and 8 homeless healthcare sites as well as a two school-based health centers and two family medicine residency programs.

Dr. Calman is the recipient of many National and regional awards for his work including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Health Leadership Award, the American Academy of Family Physicians' Public Health Award,  the Pew Charitable Trusts' Primary Care Achievement Award and the Physician Advocacy Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession.  

Dr. Calman is the project director of Bronx Health REACH, a Centers for Disease Control funded effort involving over 40 community and faith-based organizations to eliminate racial and ethnic differences in health outcomes in the Bronx.  

In 2002 the Institute’s implemented a fully integrated practice management and electronic health record system e – an implementation that has been directed at population and community health, as well as supporting the Institute’s continuing efforts in eliminating health disparities. In recognition of this achievement, Dr. Calman received the 2006 Physician’s Information Technology Leadership Award, presented by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In 2008. the Institute received the HIMSS Davies Award in Public Health and the New York Times Non-profit Excellence Award for its Use of Technology and Focus on Mission.

Dr. Calman serves on the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education and on the Board of the Community Health Care Association of New York State. In 2009 he was appointed by the Obama Administration as an expert in the care of vulnerable populations to HRSA’s HIT Policy Committee where he serves on the Meaningful Use Subcommittee and the Privacy and Security and Quality Measurement Tiger Teams.