Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle): David R. Garr, M.D.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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NAME
Garr, David R., M.D.
POSITION TITLE
Executive Director, South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC), Associate Dean for Community Medicine, Professor of Family Medicine EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE
(if applicable) YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY Duke University, North Carolina B.A. 1964-68 Chemistry
Duke Medical School, North Carolina M.D. 1968-72 Medicine
Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York -- 1972-75 Family PracticeResident Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Senior 1993-94 Cancer Prevention Seattle, Washington Fellow Research
A. Positions and Honors: Specialty Board Certification:
Board Certified in Family Practice 1975; Re-certified 1981, 1988, 1995, 2002 Positions:
1975 –1981 Clinical Instructor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Utah, College of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
198l – 1985 Director of Learning Resources, Family Medicine Residency Program, Mercy Medical Center, Denver, CO
1982 – 1985 Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO
1985 – 1991 Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
1991 – 1993 Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
1993 – present Professor with Tenure, Department of Family Medicine, Medical Universityof South Carolina, Charleston, SC
1993 – 1994 Senior Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
1997 – 2002 Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
2002 – present Associate Dean for Community Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 2003 – present Executive Director, SC Area Health Education Consortium (SC AHEC)
Selected Other Experience:
1975 – 1981 Medical Director, Family Practice Group of Tooele, Tooele, UT
1979 – 1988 Member, Governing Board, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Rural Practice Project" National Network
1980 – 1981 Consultant, Utah Network of Rural Health Programs
1983 – 1990 Member, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)Task Force on Training Residents for the Future
1983 – 1991 Member, STFM Task Force on Undergraduate Medical Education
1986 – 1988 Chairman, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health Promotion Working Group 1986 – 1990 Member, External Advisory Committee, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Mercer
School of Medicine
1986 – 1991 Member, STFM Working Group on Health Promotion in Medical Education 1987 – 1990 Chairman, Medical Center Ethics Committee, MUSC Hospital
1987 – 1990 Member, Introduction to Clinical Medicine Steering Committee (a subcommittee of the MUSC College of Medicine's Curriculum Committee)
1988 – 1992 Member, Advisory Committee, Kellogg Foundation/National Rural Health Association sponsored "Community-Oriented Primary Care Demonstration Project"
1989 – 1990 Chairman, Hampton County/University Joint Task Force for Community-Based Primary Care Education
1989 – 1992 Chairman, STFM Community Medicine Working Group
1991 – 1992 Member, Program and Planning Committee, Healthy People 2000 South Carolina
1991 – 1992 Consultant to the Division of Minority Health, Education and Prevention, Association of American Medical Colleges
1991 – 1994 Member, Board of Directors, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM) 1991 – present Member of the following ATPM Committees:
Education Committee
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/ATPM Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee
Membership Committee
1991 – 1997 Director, Prevention Education, Hollings Cancer Center
1993 – 1996 Member, American Cancer Society National Advisory Group on Preventive Health Care Reminder Systems
1994 – 1997 Member of the MUSC College of Medicine Strategic Planning Steering Committee 1995 – 1996 Chair, Search Committee for the Director for the MUSC Center for Health Care Research 1995 – present Coordinator of the Prevention Curriculum Assistance Program (a project sponsored by the
Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine to assist U.S. medical schools with prevention education programs)
1997 – 2003 Undergraduate Education Curriculum Committee, MUSC 1997 – present College of Medicine Education Policy Council
1997 – 1999 Member of the Program Planning Committee for national meetings entitled “Prevention ‘98” and “Prevention ‘99”
1997– 2003 National Advisory Committee for “Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century”, a project funded by the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration 1997 – present Member of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine’s “Prevention in Medical Education”
Task Force
1998 – 2001 Member of the College of Medicine Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee 1998 – 2002 Chair, College of Medicine Curriculum Coordinating Committee
1999 – present Charleston County Medical Society Committee for the Underserved
1999 – present Chair, Association for Prevention Teaching and Research DHHS/Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee
2000 – 2002 Medical Director, Hollings Cancer Center’s Mobile Health Unit
2001 Member, Search Committee, Director for the Center for the Study of Aging, MUSC 2001 – 2004 Member, American Journal of Preventive Medicine Board of Governors
2002 – 2003 Member, Executive Committee, Charleston County Medical Society 2002 – 2004 President-Elect, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine 2002 – present Member, College of Medicine's Advisory Committee on Diversity 2003 Member, Search Committee for the Associate Dean for Students 2003 – present Co-Chair, National Healthy People Curriculum Task Force
2004 – 2006 President, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (now Association for Prevention Teaching and Research)
2004 – present Member, College of Health Professions’ Advisory Committee 2004 – present Member, Dietetic Internship Advisory Committee
2005 – present Co-Chair, MUSC Interprofessional Education Steering Committee
Professional Memberships:
• American Academy of Family Physicians - Fellow since 1988
• Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine
• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Honors:
• Health Professions Scholarship l968-l972 at Duke Medical School
• Mosby Book Award for Leadership/Scholarship, May 1972, Duke Medical School
• American Academy of Family Physicians Outstanding Exhibit Award, "Impact of Computer-Generated Physician and Patient Reminders, Physician Education, and Administrative Changes on Receipt of Preventive Services," national meeting of American Academy of Family Physicians, Dallas, TX, October 1990
• Recognition Award for Outstanding Community Involvement, Hospice of Charleston, Charleston, SC, June 1991
• Selected to be a Senior Fellow, Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, July 1993 - June 1994
• Nominated by the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians for the national American Academy of Family Physicians Public Health Award, February 1994
• Crisis Ministries’ Founders Award, Charleston, SC, September 1994
• Distinguished Educator Award, The 1st Annual Conference of the South Carolina Rural Health Association, Columbia, South Carolina, January 1997
• Special Recognition Award, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, March 2000
• Golden Apple Nominee for Clinical Teaching, 1992, 2001
• Selected for inclusion in the listing of The Best Doctors in America,1998, 2002, 2006
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).
1. Garr DR. Idealism versus realism: Reflections on primary care training and practice. The Journal of Family Practice l980, l0:9ll-912
2. The STFM Task Force on Training Residents for the Future. Training residents for the future. Family Medicine l986; l8:29-37
3. Garr DR. Characteristics and job satisfaction of family physicians in full-time teaching. Family Medicine l986; l8:269-73
4. Ornstein SM, Garr DR, et al. Compliance with five health promotion recommendations in a university-based family practice. Journal of Family Practice 1989; 29:163-68
5. Merenstein JH, Schulte JJ and the STFM Task Force on Residency Curriculum for the Future. A residency curriculum for the future. Family Medicine 1990; 22:467-73
6. Ornstein SM, Garr DR, et al. Computer-generated physician and patient reminders: Tools to improve population adherence with selected preventive services. The Journal of Family Practice 1991; 32:82-90
7. Garr DR. Community-oriented primary care in a rural community: The Hampton County experience. Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association 1992; 88:489-92
8. Garr DR, Ornstein SM, Jenkins RG, Zemp LD. The effect of routine use of computer-generated preventive reminders in a clinical practice. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 1993; 9(1)55-61
9. Ornstein SM, Jenkins RG, Garr DR. A comprehensive, microcomputer-based preventive services system for the family physician. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 1993; 6(1)1-6
10. Ornstein SM, Musham C, Reid A, Jenkins RG, Zemp LD, Garr DR. Barriers to adherence to preventive services reminder letters: The patient's perspective. Journal of Family Practice 1993; 36:195-200
11. Garr DR, Rhyne R, Kukulka G. Incorporating a community-oriented approach into primary care. American Family Physician 1993; 47:1699-1702
12. Ornstein SM, Musham C, Reid AO, Garr DR, Jenkins RG, Zemp LD: A Preventive Services Reminder System Using Feedback from Focus Groups. Archives of Family Medicine, 1994; 3:801-806
13. Ornstein SM, Garr DR, Jenkins RG, Musham C, Hamadeh G, Lancaster C, Clair D, Zemp LD: Implementation and Evaluation of a Computer-Based Preventive Services System. Family Medicine 1995;27:260-266
14. Frame PS, Admire J, Burack R, Garr DR, et al: Computerized Health Maintenance Tracking Systems: A Clinician’s Guide to Necessary and Optional Features. A Report from the American Cancer Society Advisory Group on Preventive Health Care Reminder Systems, J Am Board Fam Pract, 1995; 8:221-229
15. Daniel DM, Lackland DT, Baron LF, Nixon DW, Garr DR, Gross AJ, O’Brien PH, Hoel DG. Comparison of white and African-American barriers to mammography: a need for a barrier-specific approach to care. Cancer Prevention International, 1995; 2:3-21
16. Leininger LS, Finn L, Dickey L, Dietrich AJ, Foxhall L, Garr DR, Stewart B, Wender R. An Office System for Organized Preventive Services. A Report by the American Cancer Society Advisory Group on Preventive Health Care Reminder Systems. Arch Fam Med 1996; 5:108-115
17. Garr DR, Lackland DT, Wilson DB. Prevention Education and Evaluation in U.S. Medical Schools: A Status Report. Acad Med 2000;75(7 suppl):S14-S21
18. Blue AV, Barnette J, Ferguson K, Garr DR. Evaluation Methods for Prevention Education. Acad Med 2000;75(7 suppl):S28-S34
19. Garr DR, Commentary on the Case-Based Series in Population-Oriented Prevention. Am J Prev Med 2003; 24(45): 164-165
20. Blue AV, Chessman AW, Geesey ME, Garr DR, Kern DH, White AW. Medical Students’ Perceptions of Rural Practice Following a Rural Clerkship. Family Medicine 2004; 36(5):336-40
21. Mainous Arch G, King DE, Garr DR, Pearson WS.Race, Rural Residence, and Control of Diabetes and Hypertension. Annals of Family Medicine 2004; 2(6):563-8
22. Grigsby DG, McClanahan KG, Garr DR. Wellness and Prevention. Family Medicine 2004; 36 Suppl:S74-82 23. Allan J, Agar T, Cashman S, Cawley JF, Day C, Douglass CW, Evans CH, Garr DR, Maeshiro R, McCarthy RL,
Meyer SM, Riegelman R, Seifer SD, Stanley J, Swenson M, Teitelbaum HS, Timothe P, Werner KE, Wood D. Clinical Prevention and Population Health: Curriculum Framework for Health Professions. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2004; 27(5):471-6
24. Riegelman RK, Evans CH, Garr DR. Why a Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework? American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2004; 27(5):477
25. Shealy RM, Simpson WM, Lee FW, Best CL, Kennedy B, Carson DS, Garr DR. The gaping hole: Physicians are missing from the front line of disaster preparedness training. The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association 2006; 101(1)11-13
Other Recent Publications:
26. Oglesby J, Kern D, Lamar CS, Kammermann S, Chessman A, Garr DR. A Statewide Partnership That Works. The National AHEC Bulletin. Volume XX, Number 2, 35-37, 2004
27. Garr DR, Kennedy DB. Developing a Diverse Workforce: It Takes a State. The National AHEC Bulletin. Volume XXI, Number 2, 11-12, 2005
28. Garr DR, Harvan R, Cashman S. Teaching Clinical Prevention and Population Health: A Leadership Opportunity for the National AHEC System. The National AHEC Bulletin. Volume XXII, Number 1, 4-5, 2005
29. Garr DR, Implementing the Curriculum Framework: Opportunities for Collaboration Between Leadership Organizations. Proceedings of the 12th Congress of Health Professions Educators. 47-48, 2005
C. Selected Research Support
D32 PE 10102-04 Garr (PI) 1997 – 2000 HRSA
The MUSC Family Medicine/Primary Care Curriculum Program
Supported the integration and evaluation of an increased emphasis on primary care in the medical school curriculum. Role: PI
2D15PE80C41 Chessman (PI) 1997 – 2000 HRSA
Expanding the Family Medicine Junior Core Clerkship: A Continuous- Improvement, Community-oriented Family Medicine Core Clerkship Serving Rural, Underserved Populations
Supported the creation of a rural clerkship for all third year medical students during which they provide patient care, made home visits, and engaged in community-responsive health improvement projects.
Role: Co-PI
5U76AH00001-02 Garr (PI) 1998-1999 ATPM
The National Prevention Self-Assessment Analysis
Evaluated the content of prevention in the curricula of U.S. medical schools. Role: PI
Fowler (PI) 1999 – 2002
The Duke Endowment and the Fullerton Foundation The Deans’ Rural Primary Care Clerkship
Provided funding to expand, improve, and evaluate the effect of educating medical students in rural South Carolina communities.
1-T01-HP-00168-01 Garr (PI) 2003 – 2005 HRSA
Bioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program Cooperative Agreement Program
Supported the education of frontline health professionals in South Carolina to help them prepare for bioterrorist events and public health emergencies.
Role: PI
Fowler (PI) 2004 – 2007
The Duke Endowment and the Fullerton Foundation
Integration of Physician Training and Biomedical Research in South Carolina
Support for the creation of a statewide telecommunications system to assist with health professions education and research programs throughout South Carolina.
Role: Project Co-Director
U77HP03019 Garr (PI) 2004 – 2007 HRSA
Model State Supported AHEC Program
Supports the educational, service, and research activities of the South Carolina AHEC Program. Role: PI
Garr (PI) 2004 – 2007
The Macy Foundation
Clinical Prevention and Population Health: Multiprofessional Education, Practice and Research
Supports the incorporation and assessment of prevention and population health curricular content into health professions education programs in the U.S.
Role: PI
5556-SP Garr (PI) 2005 – 2006 The Duke Endowment
Building Coalitions to Increase the Diversity of the South Carolina Health Care Workshop
Supported the creation of regional coalitions in South Carolina designed to increase the number and diversity of young people planning careers in health care.
Role: PI
T01HP01418 Garr (PI) 2005 – 2008 HRSA
Bioterrorism Training and Curriculum Development Program Cooperative Agreement Program
Expands the work begun in 2003 to prepare front line health care professionals how to respond to natural or manmade disasters.
Role: PI
5782-SP Garr (PI) 2006 – 2009 The Duke Endowment
Building Coalitions to Increase the Diversity of the South Carolina Health Care Workshop
Supports the implementation and assessment of new methods to guide under-represented minority students toward careers in health care.
