Sheldon Greenfield, MD is Director of the Primary Care Outcomes Research Institute at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA. The Institute is dedicated to research and demonstration in outcomes and on the quality of technical and interpersonal care. Dr. Greenfield is also Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Greenfield also serves as Academic Advisor to Tufts Health Care Institute. Prior to coming to Tufts-New England Medical Center in 1988, Dr. Greenfield was associated with the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health and the Rand Corporation in California, including the position of Co-Director of the Joint RAND-UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. He has pioneered research in increasing patients’ participation in care and using outcomes to determine the value of that participation.

Beginning in 1984 Dr. Greenfield served as the Medical Director of the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), which sought to compare systems of care, specialties, various aspects of interpersonal care and resource use to outcome. He is one of the nation’s leading clinician outcomes researchers, with numerous publications, committee assignments, and awards. Dr. Greenfield was Principal Investigator of the Type II Diabetes Patient Outcome Research Team (PORT) and is Chairman of the Diabetes Quality Improvement Program, a joint venture of the HCFA, NCQA and the ADA. He also is former President of the Society of General Internal Medicine and was Chairman of the Health Care Technology Study Section for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Dr. Greenfield is a practicing general internist at Tufts-New England Medical Center. He earned an AB from Harvard College and an MD degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his residency and a fellowship in infectious disease at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA.