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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine would like to take this opportunity to congratulate editorial board member Dr. James Mold, who was elected to the Institute of Medicine. He joins other board members previously elected to the Institute of Medicine, including Drs. Alfred Berg, Marjorie Bowman, Richard Clover, Larry Culpepper, Larry Green, and Howard Rabinowitz.
James Mold completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, receiving a BS with honors. He received his MD from Duke University, where he was elected to the 
Honorary Fraternity. After completion of his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester/Highland Hospital, Dr. Mold worked as a family physician in Ghana, West Africa, and then in Hillsborough, North Carolina, before joining the faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. There, through self-study and a part-time fellowship offered by the University of North Carolina, Dr. Mold became a geriatrician and developed a number of geriatric teaching sites including assessment and continuity clinics, an inpatient geriatric treatment program, a teaching nursing home service, and the Oklahoma Geriatric Education Center, now a part of the Oklahoma Center on Aging. He was instrumental in creating the Department of Geriatric Medicine, which was only the third geriatric department in the country at that time. These experiences resulted in his conceptualization of "goal-directed health care," a theoretical model that continues to gain acceptance around the world.
After a brief interlude as the Smock Endowed Professor of Geriatrics at the University of Louisville, Jim returned to the University of Oklahoma to become Director of the Research Division in the renamed Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. At the same time he completed a Masters Degree program in Biostatistics at the College of Public Health. In 1994, Dr. Mold obtained funding for and founded the Oklahoma Physicians Resource/Research Network, which has since become one of the premiere regional practice-based research networks in the United States. Jim's willingness to learn from practicing clinicians and to question traditional wisdom has led to the development of new research methodologies and new ways to understand research that occurs at the interface between traditional research and quality improvement. His current passion involves building a system-wide dissemination and implementation infrastructure that does for health care what the cooperative extensions have done for farming. Much of the recent work done by Oklahoma Physicians Resource/Research Network clinicians has focused on improving delivery of preventive services. A model is emerging that could have a major impact on how primary care clinicians convert disease-oriented guidelines into patient-centered recommendations.
Please look for other editorial board members biographies in this section in subsequent issues.
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