Robert A Gabbay MD PhD, FACP

Diabetes, Lipid Metabolism

Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, American Diabetes Association Associate Professor Harvard Medical School

Summary

Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP is Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He has over 35 years of clinical and research experience. His research focuses on improving primary care health care delivery to enhance diabetes outcomes and patients’ experiences.

Dr. Gabbay served as faculty chair of Pennsylvania’s statewide Chronic Care Model-focused Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) initiative (Chronic Care Initiative) involving more than 150 primary care practices with support from 17 payers. He has also worked as Principal Investigator on two AHRQ-funded PCMH projects before coming to the Joslin. The first, studied the experience of 25 practices in the first regional rollout of the Pennsylvania initiative in Southeast Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbay was also selected to help develop state-level infrastructure for primary care transformation under AHRQ’s IMPaCT program.

Dr. Gabbay’s focus at the Joslin Diabetes Center is to foster innovation within the walls of Joslin as well as disseminating these approaches regionally, nationally, and internationally.

New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1990 - 1993
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of MedicineClass of 1990
University of WisconsinPhD, Biochemistry (Lardy), 1979 - 1985
University of WisconsinPhD, Biochemistry (Lardy), 1979 - 1985
McGill UniversityBS, Biochemistry, Cum Laude, 1975 - 1978

Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification NextGen Ambulatory EHR, NextGen Healthcare, 2014-2015, 2017
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification NextGen Ambulatory EHR, NextGen Healthcare, 2014-2015, 2017

PubMed

Books/Book Chapters

Textbook of Diabetes
Chapter: The future of diabetes care
Gabbay, RA; Adelman, AMBlackwell Publishing2010
AIGF in Health and Disease in Contemporary Endocrinology
Chapter: IGF treatment of diabetes
Gabbay, RA; Moses, ACHumana Press1998
Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
Chapter: Transmembrane signaling – a tutorial
Gabbay, RA; Flier JSWilliams and WilkinsEdition 9th,1998

Abstracts/Posters

A National Primary Care Extension Service in the United State
Gabbay RA, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Improving Patient Care Summit, Washington, DC, 1/1/2014
Training for the Practice-Based Care Manager
Gabbay RA, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Improving Patient Care Summit, Washington, DC, 1/1/2014
Effective Care Management Implementation in the Patient Centered Medical Home
Gabbay RA, North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting, Ontario, Canada, 1/1/2013

Lectures

Diabetes Innovative Models of Care: Taking Back Your Practice with Innovation
ENDO 2019 - New Orleans, LA - 3/23/2019
Patient-Centered Diabetes Care
Princeton, NJ - 1/1/2014
IMPaCT: Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation
Washington, DC - 1/1/2014

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PA SPREAD: PA Spreading Primary Care Enhanced Delivery InfrastructureAgency For Healthcare Research And Quality2011
A Multi-Payer Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative In PennsylvaniaAgency For Healthcare Research And Quality2010–2011
Impact Of Nurse Case Management On Diabetes Co-MorbidityNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2005–2009
Insulin Signaling Pathways Regulating Hepatic MetabolisNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1996–1998