Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD

Scholar Project

RELATIONSHIP-CENTERED CARE AT THE
COMMUNITY INTERFACE

Dr. Stange is examining the integration of relationship-centered care at the crossroads between person and population. His work fosters a dialogue between numbers and narrative, between quantitative and qualitative, between statistic and story.

By iterating between on-the-ground research and development projects, and narrative and scientific writing, Dr. Stange is working to discover how the fundamental primary health care tenets can be carried forward and re-invented by a new generation in the information age.

The research and development work encompasses diverse initiatives at the health care-community/public health interface. The writing involves scientific articles, theory development, policy analysis, narrative non-fiction, and a novel. This work includes mentoring a new generation that is trying to balance individual responsibility with evenhanded opportunity to advance the collective good over individual and group avarice.

Biography

Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD, is a family and public health physician, practicing at Neighborhood Family Practice, a federally-qualified community health center in Cleveland, Ohio.

At Case Western Reserve University he is a Distinguished University Professor, and is the Gertrude Donnelly Hess, MD Professor of Oncology Research, and Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Oncology and Sociology.

He is an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, and serves as editor for the Annals of Family Medicine (www.AnnFamMed.org). He is working on Promoting Health Across Boundaries (www.PHAB.us). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences.