John Geyman, MD is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine from 1976 to 1990. As a family physician with over 25 years in academic medicine, he has also practiced in rural communities for 13 years. He was the founding editor of The Journal of Family Practice (1973 to 1990) and the editor of The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice from 1990 to 2003. His most recent books are Health Care in America: Can Our Ailing System Be Healed? (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002), The Corporate Transformation of Health Care: Can the Public Interest Still Be Served? (Springer Publishing Company, 2004), Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance (Common Courage Press, 2005), Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare (Common Courage Press, 2006), and The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy? (Common Courage Press, 2008), Do Not Resuscitate - Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, And How We Must Replace It, and The Cancer Generation - Baby Boomers Facing a Perfect Storm. Dr. Geyman served as President of Physicians for a National Health Program from 2005 to 2007 and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
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Abstract of PNHP Profile
Each generation has an obligation to remind succeeding ones about the people, ideas, and events that have gotten us to this point. This essay and an accompanying oral history trace the origins of family medicine through the life of someone who helped found it—John P. Geyman, M.D. He is one of the most published family physicians in the United States. In addition to being a rural family physician, he was one of the first residency directors in family medicine and the first editor of the discipline’s first academic journal. His career weaves four themes together in interesting and creative ways: commitment to the work of clinical practice, a sense of responsibility for strengthening clinical education, a belief that clinical care should be based on science and delivered within a rational system of health care, and a love of flying. His story also exemplifies the generation of general practitioners who started family medicine but who retained both a personal understanding of the complex nature of independent practice and a reliance on community... (click here for John's full profile)
Education:
1952 A.B. (Geology), Princeton University
1960 M.D. University of California San Francisco School of MedicineHonors:
1960 Gold Headed Cane Award, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
1980 Certificate of Excellence, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
1980 Thomas W. Johnson Award for contributions in family practice education, American Academy of Family Physicians
1985 Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
1990 Curtis B. Hames Research Award, North America Primary Care Research Group and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
1998 Alumnus of the Year, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
2004 Marian Bishop Award, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
2008 Dr. Quentin Young Health Activist Award, Physicians for a National Health Program
2010 The Wright Brothers "Master Pilot" Award. Federal Aviation Agency