Who We Are

The Emory Primary Care Consortium serves as a bridge between primary care providers across Emory University and Emory Healthcare. The consortium’s tactical objectives include creating mentorship and collaborative opportunities across primary care, supporting faculty through CME and research funding opportunities and providing guidance on promotion, and aligning training programs that produce our future workforce.

Consortium Committee Members

Pictured (l to r): Christopher Masi, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Emory Primary Care; Tina-Ann Thompson, MD, Program Lead for Emory Primary Care and Division Director, Emory Division of Family Medicine; and Sonya Green, PA-C, Chief of Primary Care Advance Practice Providers, Emory Healthcare

Dr. Chris Masi, Dr. Tina-Ann Thompson, and Sonya Green PA-C

Membership

The Consortium comprises primary care providers from across Emory Healthcare, including the Emory Clinic, Emory Specialty Associates, and a variety of community-based urgent care partners along with Primary Care Providers from Atlanta VA Medical Center and faculty, staff, and learners from Emory University, including

Emory University School of Medicine

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Emory Nurse Practitioner Program

Rollins School of Public Health

Vision, Mission, Values

Vision

PC careers at Emory will be recognized as rewarding, engaging, exciting, and beneficial to our patients; and the institution is recognized as a destination for training and working in primary care.

Mission

The Emory Primary Care Consortium bridges partners to enable collaborations across health systems, primary care sites, academic schools and units, and professions. We actively support:

Quality and high-value patient-centered primary care, discovery, and innovation
Community and health-system partnerships for the establishment of a robust infrastructure supporting primary care in a manner that benefits patients
Professional development via technical expertise and financial support for interprofessional student interest groups, small travel and project grants, award programs and promotion support, and primary care week social and education events
Programs supporting wellness and joy in practice
All efforts to raise the institutional awareness of the value of a robust primary care program
Advocacy
Enhancing the teaching and training mission (and capacity) for excellent clinical education

Values

Collaboration
Cross-disciplinary teamwork
Innovation
Advocacy
Patient-centered
Evidence-based practice and life-long learning
Equity and Inclusion
Improving primary care quality improves overall healthcare quality

Executive Sponsors

Ted Johnson, MD, MPH

Paul W. Seavey Chair in Medicine
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Chair, Family and Preventive Medicine
Program Director, Emory Primary Care

LeShea Turner, MHA

Vice President, Primary Care and Emory Specialty Associates

Administrative Support Team

Jason Freiji, MBA Emory Primary Care Consortium, Financial Officer. Financial Analyst, Divisions of General Medicine and Geriatrics & Gerontology

Leigh Partington, PhD Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications: Emory Primary Care Consortium, Division of General Medicine, and Department of Family & Preventive Medicine

Chariss Smith Senior Administrative Assistant

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