Home Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Field: Family Medicine and Community Health
Current Positions:
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.
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.
See moreDr. Stange serves and has served in numerous leadership and educational roles. His research uses participatory, multimethod, systems science-informed approaches that aim to understand and improve primary health care and community health. This includes basic science investigation to reveal how health care can be integrated, personalized, prioritized and linked with public health, to foster healthy individuals, families and communities. His highly collaborative lines of investigation are advancing understanding of cancer prevention and control, how care can be improved for people with multiple chronic conditions, how patient strengths can be effectively brought into health care, and how multiple sectors can work together to improve the health of their community.
Certificate, Physician Executive Institute, Health Systems Management Center, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
PhD, University of North Carolina School of Public Health
MD, Albany Medical College
AB, Dartmouth College
Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, 2014
Max Cheplove Award, New York State
Academy of Family Physicians, 2013
Family Medicine Mentorship Award, CWRU School of Medicine, 2013
See moreFamily Medicine Education Consortium's Champion of Family Medicine Award, 2012
Curtis G. Hames Research Award, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2012
American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship, 2007-2017
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Award for best peer-reviewed research paper, 2011
American Cancer Society Cuyahoga County Unit Cancer Hall of Fame Award in Research, 2006
Maurice Saltzman Award, Mount Sinai Health Care Foundation, 2005
Charles Kent Smith Faculty Award, 2004
Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar, 1994-1998
Fellow, American College of Preventive Medicine, 1991
Kenneth G. Reeb, MD Award for Excellence in Teaching, CWRU/University Hospitals Family Practice Residency Program, 1990
Commendation from the Medical Assistants at the University Hospital Family Practice Center, 1989
Certificate of Merit from the (US) Secretary of Health & Human Services “For a Proposal for an Innovative Approach to Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,” 1988
William J. “Terry” Kane, MD Award for Excellence in Clinical Family Medicine, Duke-Watts Family Medicine Program, 1986
Chief Resident, Duke-Watts Family Medicine Program, 1985-1986
The Anna Perkins Award in Family Medicine, Albany Medical College, 1983
Alpha Omega Alpha, Albany Medical College, 1982
Highest Distinction in Biology, Dartmouth College, 1979
A Participatory Model of the Paradox of
Primary Care, Annals of Family Medicine,
2015.
Understanding care integration from the
ground up: five organizing constructs that
shape integrated practices. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2015.
Learning Evaluation: blending quality improvement and implementation
research methods to study healthcare innovations, Implementation Science, 2015.
Understanding the context of health for people with multiple chronic conditions: Moving from what is the matter to what matters, Annals of Family Medicine, 2014.
Metrics for assessing improvements in primary health care. Annual Review of Public Health,
2014.
Refocusing knowledge generation, application, and education raising our gaze to promote health across boundaries, American Journal
of Preventive Medicine, 2011.
Patient outcomes at 26 months in the
Patient-Centered Medical Home National Demonstration Project. Annals of Family Medicine, 2010.
Understanding healing relationships in
primary care, Annals of Family Medicine, 2008.