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Medica Research Institute Names Distinguished Chair in Health Policy ResearchThe Medica Research Institute has appointed Glenn Flores, MD, as Distinguished Chair in Health Policy Research. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150831005858/en/ 
Glenn Flores, MD, named Distinguished Chair in Health Policy Research at Medica Research Institute (Photo: Business Wire). Flores comes to the Institute after serving at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Health System of Texas. His appointments included: Professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Sciences, and Public Health; the Judith and Charles Ginsburg Chair in Pediatrics; Founder and Director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship; and Director of the Division of General Pediatrics. Flores has provided U.S. Senate and Congressional testimony, served as a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and consulted for the U.S. Surgeon General, Institute of Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), American Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, First Focus, and Sesame Street Workshop. He is Director of the Research in Academic Pediatrics Initiative on Diversity (RAPID). The national program provides career development for diverse junior faculty in general academic pediatrics who are pursuing careers that address pediatric obesity, nutrition, and/or sickle cell disease. He has published more than 200 articles and book chapters on a variety of health services research topics in such journals as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, and the Lancet, including articles on pediatric health services research, public and population health, racial/ethnic disparities in children's health and healthcare, language barriers in healthcare, insuring the uninsured, health policy, and childhood obesity. His research has been funded by major public and private agencies and organizations, and he has received awards for his work from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, and the Academic Pediatric Association. His research focuses on health policy, the health and healthcare of underserved children, the uninsured, and racial/ethnic and linguistic disparities in healthcare. "The research and advocacy efforts that Dr. Flores has led have advanced child health policy on a national scale," says Kristina Bloomquist, Executive Director of the Medica Research Institute. "I'm looking forward to the research programs he'll build at the Institute that address key issues facing the well-being of children, and persistent health disparities." Over the past year, the Institute conducted a rigorous national search to fill the newly created Distinguished Chair in Health Policy Research position. The chair is charged with providing intellectual leadership to advance the Institute's health policy research initiatives and to strengthen the organization's national and regional networks and collaborative partnerships. About the Medica Research Institute The Medica Research Institute is an applied, academic-like environment in Minneapolis, Minnesota that conducts leading-edge research to inform high value health care. Institute investigators explore key issues in health care by resourcing its regional health plan affiliation (Medica) and health care systems serving patients in the upper Midwest. Optimizing health care delivery, enhancing health care user engagement, and informing community health are the three main pillars of the Institute's research agenda. To learn more, visit MedicaResearchInstitute.org. About Medica Medica is the parent company to the Medica Research Institute and operates as a health care services company headquartered in Minneapolis and active in the Upper Midwest. With nearly 1.5 million members, the non-profit company provides health care coverage in the employer, individual, Medicaid, Medicare and Medicare Part D markets in Minnesota and a growing number of counties in Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Medica also offers national network coverage to employers who also have employees outside the Medica regional network.
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