Director's Message

Center faculty aim to advance primary care on multiple fronts. They directly educate trainees and develop new educational approaches to prepare the future generation of primary care clinicians. Through scientific discovery, our affiliated investigators are exploring ways to improve the quality of care delivered in primary care settings, advance population health, improve patient safety, test new uses of technology and make primary care delivery easier for patients and clinicians. In practice, the center works with affiliated health systems to advance the delivery of excellent, high-quality, patient-focused primary care.

The Center for Primary Care Innovation works to strengthen, improve and transform primary care through education, research and clinical innovation. Our goals are to attract talented Northwestern trainees to primary care, test innovative ways to improve care delivery and to promote the adoption of innovative best practices.

Stephen Persell, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Primary Care Innovation
Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics