Dr. LeMaster completed his MD at the University of Kansas in 1985. After completing a Family Medicine residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Ft. Worth, TX he spent a decade in Nepal (1990-2000) participating in international primary and preventive health care projects.
After completing a Master of Public Health degree in 2002 at the University of Washington, he was a faculty member at the University of Missouri Columbia from 2002-2011. While there, he completed a number of clinical trials and practice-based studies that aimed to improve diabetic self-management behavior and prevent diabetic complications, especially foot ulcers and amputations. He returned to the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 2011, at which time he re-focused his research and clinical efforts on the provision of primary care to a panel of refugees and others with limited English proficiency.
Since then, he has conducted a number of studies funded by local foundations and the National Institutes of Health to improve health and healthcare outcomes for people with limited English proficiency. Most notably, he helped co-lead a series of 3 “Pipeline” projects funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which led to an additional PCORI Eugene Washington engagement award (2019-2020) in partnership with the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network, for which he serves as a Senior Scientist, entitled Building PCOR Capacity with Newcomer Patients in Practice-based Research Networks.
He currently also serves as the Health Advisor/Local Health Officer for the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. He is a member of the Board of NAPCRG (the premiere research organization for primary care research globally) and the Chair of the “Committee for the Advancement of the Science of Family Medicine.”