Professor
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Dr. Gillian Bartlett is the Associate Dean for Population Health and Outcomes Research at the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) where she is also a tenured Professor of Family & Community Medicine. She received her PhD in epidemiology from McGill in 2001 and her MSc in 1996. In 2014, she was awarded the Carrie M. Derick Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Supervision for McGill University and the Faculty of Medicine Honour List for Educational Excellence. While completing a 10-year mandate as Research and Graduate Program Director at McGill, she led the development and successful accreditation of three training programs that now have over a hundred trainees enrolled – an MSc in Family Medicine, a PhD in Family Medicine and Primary Care and the Clinician Scholars Program which is an Enhanced Skills third year family medicine residency program focusing on research skills.
Dr. Bartlett specializes in primary care research and knowledge translation. Her current concentration is on knowledge translation and stakeholder engagement around health care utilization and outcomes for vulnerable populations; implementation of precision medicine using patient-oriented strategies; and the use of education innovations to advance the discipline of family medicine and primary care. Dr. Bartlett was elected President of the North American Primary Care Research Group in 2020. She is currently the Executive Director for the Network Coordinating Office of the Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations (PIHCI) Network.