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Joseph Frolkis, MD, PhD, who has previously held leadership positions in preventive cardiology, primary care and hospital administration, began as director of Primary Care and associate chief of General Medicine for BWH in the Department of Medicine in October.
“I’ve been an advocate for primary care for 25 years,” Frolkis said. “However, the sense of urgency about the need for health care reform, and the emerging consensus about the central role that a revitalized primary care work force must play in it, is unprecedented. This is true here at BWH, at Partners, regionally, and at the national level.”
Frolkis is responsible for ensuring that all 12 BWH primary care practices continue to provide the highest quality, comprehensive care and is involved in issues related to the recruitment, retention and mentoring of physicians who choose careers in general internal medicine and primary care. He also is practicing primary care here at BWH.
Frolkis graduated from Case Western University School of Medicine, and he completed his residency and chief residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland. Prior to medical school, he completed his doctorate in clinical psychology at Boston University. Previously, he served as chief of Primary Care at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, as the chief of the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics, and Health Care Research at University Hospitals in Cleveland, and as director of Clinical Operations for the Section of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Department of Cardiology. He also served as associate professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Most recently, Frolkis served as president and CEO of New Milford Hospital in New Milford, Conn.
Stuart Mushlin, MD, had served as the interim director for Primary Care over the past year following the departure of Robert Goldszer, MD, MBA, in April 2008.
“Please join us in welcoming and congratulating Dr. Frolkis to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Department of Medicine and the Division of General Medicine, and in thanking Dr. Mushlin for his thoughtful and skillful leadership of Primary Care during the past year,” said Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, chairman of the Department of Medicine.