Joseph P. Frolkis, MD, PhD, FACP, FAHA
Director of Primary Care
Brigham and Women's Hospital/EH&E
Biography
Joseph P. Frolkis, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of Primary Care and Associate Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is responsible for 130 physicians in 12 practices around greater Boston, who see 205,000 adult visits annually, and for their performance on the critical metrics of access, quality, and cost. In this position, he is actively involved in preparing the Primary Care enterprise for the impact of the prevailing “forces of change”; including health care’s unsustainable cost, the critical shortage of primary care providers, and the emerging implications of the Affordable Care Act.
Dr. Frolkis received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University in 1976, and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1980. He was Chief of Primary Care at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, Clinical Director of Preventive Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Chief of the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics, and Health Care Research at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Medical School. Before joining Brigham and Women’s in 2009, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of New Milford Hospital in Connecticut, part of the New York-Presbyterian Health Care System.
His research activities have focused on the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, and on both patient and physician non-adherence with evidence-based treatment guidelines. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Heart Association.