Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304
USA
Presenter: Matthew Liang, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Liang attended the Advanced College Preparatory Course at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. At Johns Hopkins University, he studied philosophy and chemistry. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1969 he trained at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. He then received a Masters of Public Health in Tropical Public Health and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
In 1972-1973, on the Harvard Service at the Boston City Hospital, he co-directed a new neighborhood health center in Roxbury and the Nursing Home Telemedicine program with Dr. Roger Mark. The latter was an innovative health care system for over 400 patients in five nursing homes and demonstrated that nurse practitioners could provide effective economical care to nursing home residents and years later led to the reimbursement of nurse practitioners in this role.
From 1973 to 1975, he implemented the Army’s algorithm-based physician extender program (AMOSIST) which cared for over 30,000 patients a month and organized the first training program in General Internal Medicine at Walter Reed Hospital. After the service, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a rheumatology fellow with Dr. Halsted Holman at Stanford.
In 1977, he was recruited to Harvard by H.R. Nesson, K. Frank Austen, and Eugene Braunwald to start a clinical research program at the Robert B. Brigham Hospital, the first teaching hospital in arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases in the US, and to the new Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He founded the Robert B. Brigham Multipurpose Arthritis Center later named the Robert B. Brigham Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Clinical Research Center, the progenitor of the Division of Clinical Sciences, from its inception in 1979 to 2003.