Neil Calman, MD

Role:
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Institute for Family Health
Neil Calman, MD, is a Board Certified family physician who has been practicing in the Bronx and Manhattan for the past 30 years. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Family Health where he has served as President and CEO since 1983. The Institute operates 17 community health centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and the Hudson Valley of New York and 8 homeless healthcare sites, as well as a two school-based health centers and two family medicine residency programs. Dr. Calman is the recipient of many National and regional awards for his work, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Health Leadership Award, the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Public Health Award, the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Primary Care Achievement Award and the Physician Advocacy Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession. Dr. Calman is the project director of Bronx Health REACH, a Centers for Disease Control funded effort dedicated to eliminating racial and ethnic differences in health outcomes in the Bronx, involving over 70 community and faith-based organizations. In 2007, the Institute was named a National Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities by the Centers for Disease Control.