Russell S. Phillips is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Senior Advisor on Innovation in Primary Care in the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) where he is also a primary care physician. He was the Founding Director of the HMS Center for Primary Care and served as the Director and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine for 13 years. Prior to that, he was the Division Chief in General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC
He is a member of the Primary Care Centers Round Table, chairs the board of MIT Health and serves as a member of the National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research Stakeholder Committee at AHRQ. His current research and advocacy work focuses on primary care payment policy while his work on primary care innovation focuses on reducing administrative burden and improved quality of care and patient safety.
