David Kindig MD, PhD

David A. Kindig, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin and Co-Director of the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute. Professor Kindig developed a nationally unique distance education graduate degree in medical management at the University of Wisconsin. He served as Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences from 1980-85 and was also Director of Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center (1976-80), Deputy Director of the Bureau of Health Manpower, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1974-76), and the first medical director of the National Health Service Corps (1971-73). He served as Chair of the federal Council of Graduate Medical Education (1995-1997), President of the Association for Health Services Research (1997-1998), a ProPAC Commissioner from 1991-94 and as Senior Advisor to Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1993-95. In 1996 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

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