K. Allen
Greiner,
MD, MPH
Nason Family Endowed Professor, Vice Chair, Family Medicine & Community Health; Co-Facilitator, MARG
The University of Kansas Medical Center
K. Allen Greiner is Nason Family Endowed Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center. He is a practicing family physician and Medical Officer for the Kansas City, Kansas, Wyandotte County Unified Government Health Department. Since 2002 he has been one of two primary faculty advisors to the Jaydoc Free Clinic, a medical student run clinic for the uninsured in Kansas City. He directs the Kansas Patients and Providers Engaged in Prevention Research (KPPEPR) Network. He has also directed the community engagement program in Frontiers, the KUMC Clinical Translational Science Institute.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Advancing the care of people, families, and communities and achieving health equity is fostered through interprofessional academic-community partnerships, including community-engaged collaborations focused upon clinical and translational research. Frontiers, the University of Kansas’ Clinical and Translational Science Institute, believes that conducting clinical and translational research requires collaboration with patients, stakeholders, and community partners. Frontiers’ Community Engagement Core has adopted an innovative approach to community-engaged research through the collective…