Bernard Ewigman, MD, MSPH

Dr. Ewigman is the Founding Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has authored over 80 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals, and is the founding editor of the monthly journal, Evidence Based Practice. Dr. Ewigman is also the founder and current President of the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN), a national academic consortium of over 3,000 academic and practicing physicians dedicated to translating and generating research into practice. He has served as Principal Investigator on 17 federal or foundation grants and contracts with total direct costs of $17 million and is the lead for the Knowledge Transfer Unit and the NorthShore Practice Based Improvement Research Network on the $21 million Clinical Translational Science Award grant from the National Institutes of Health to The University of Chicago.