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Richard M. Allman, MD is a board-certified geriatrician, physician leader, and a life and career coach. He has more than 30 years of experience in providing leadership for inter-professional research, education, patient care, and public health programs and for policy development, administration, and evaluation in academic, public and not-for-profit settings. His specific areas of expertise include planning and policy for long term support and service programs, geriatric and palliative care programs, public health, quality improvement, strategic planning, program development and change management.
Dr. Allman served 4.5 years as the Chief Consultant for Geriatrics and Extended Care of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, DC. In this role, his responsibilities included planning, policy and management of programs in Geriatric Medicine, Palliative Care, and long term services and supports in home and community-based settings as well as in nursing homes. The total budget for these programs was more than $8.2 Billion and are part of the care continuum provided in more than 150 VA medical centers, 800 outpatient clinics, and 134 Community Living Centers, in addition to care purchased from more than 1200 community nursing homes, 10,000 home care agencies, and 150 State Veterans Homes.
Before assuming this national leadership role for the VA, Dr. Allman was a faculty member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine and a part-time staff physician at the Birmingham VA Medical Center for 28 years. He was the Parrish Endowed Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Director, Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging, and the Director of the VA-based Birmingham/Atlanta Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC). As a Project Director, he competed successfully for external grant funding from NIH, VA, corporate and not-for-profit foundations totaling more than $17 million, and resulting in more than 180 peer-reviewed research publications.
Dr. Allman received his MD and completed a residency in internal medicine at the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine. He then did a fellowship in internal medicine and obtained training in clinical epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and also of the American Geriatrics Society. In 2013, he received the GSA Donald P. Kent Award for leadership and service and the Joseph T. Freeman Award from the Health Science Section of the society in recognition of his research accomplishments. He was recognized by AGS as the 2017 Henderson Award winner for his leadership in developing and implementing age-friendly health systems. He currently holds academic appointments as Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and as Clinical Professor at George Washington University School of Medicine. He also serves as a life and leadership coach and as an independent consultant.
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The American Journal of Medicineno. 7 (2023): 677-686
The Gerontologist (2022)
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