Executive Bios

Paul Grundy

PCPCC President

Paul Grundy MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM is IBM Corporation’s Global Director of Healthcare Transformation.  In this role, Dr. Grundy develops and executes strategies that support IBM’s healthcare-industry transformation initiatives.  Part of his work is directed towards shifting healthcare delivery around the world towards consumer-focused, primary-care based systems through the adoption of new philosophies, primary-care pilot programs, new incentives systems, and the information technology required to implement such change. 

Before joining IBM in 2000, Dr Grundy worked as a senior diplomat in the US State Department supporting the intersection of health and diplomacy.  He was also the Medical Director for the International SOS, the world’s largest medical assistance company and for Adventist Health Systems, the second-largest not-for-profit medical system in the world.

Dr. Grundy attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco and trained at Johns Hopkins University.  He has worked extensively on International Aids Pandemic prevention, including writing the United States’ first piece of legislation addressing AIDS Education in Africa.

An active social entrepreneur and speaker on global healthcare transformation, Dr. Grundy is driving comprehensive, linked, and integrated healthcare and the concept of the Patient Centered Medical Home.  His work has been reported widely in the New York Times, the Economist, New England Journal of Medicine and newspapers, radio and television around the country. Dr. Grundy’s numerous awards including the U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Award.

Dr. Grundy presently serves on The Medical Education Futures Study National Advisory Board and is President of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a coalition he lead IBM in creating in early 2006.  The PCPCC is dedicated to advancing a new primary-care model called the Patient-Centered Medical Home as a means of fundamentally reforming healthcare delivery, which in turn is essential to maintaining US international competitiveness. Today, the PCPCC represents employers of some 50 million people across the United States as well as physician groups representing more than 330,000 medical doctors, leading consumer groups and, most recently, the top seven US health-benefits companies.  Dr Grundy is also the Chair of Health Policy of the ERISA Industry Committee.

Edwina Rogers

PCPCC Executive Director

Edwina Rogers currently serves as the Executive Director of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a Washington DC trade association, responsible for the national Patient Centered Medical Home movement.  Until January 2009 Edwina also served as the Vice President, Health Policy, for The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC). ERIC advocates the employee benefits and compensation interests of America’s major employers.  Edwina has been a public policy expert for over 20 years and has worked for two Presidents and four Senators.  She was an Economic Advisor for President Bush at the White House during 2001 and 2002 at the National Economic Council, focusing on health and social security policy.  Ms. Rogers was General Counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the Republican take-over of the Senate in 1994.  She worked for Senator Lott while he was Majority Leader in 1999 and she handled health policy for Senator Sessions in 2003 and 2004.  Edwina worked on International Trade matters for the first President Bush at the Department of Commerce from 1989 until 1991.  Ms. Rogers practiced law in the Washington office of Balch and Bingham from 1991 until 1994.  She received her BS in Corporate Finance from the University of Alabama and a JD from Catholic University in Washington DC.  Ms. Rogers was a Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard during 1996.  Edwina is frequently published in newspapers and is a strategist on cable news television.  She served on the Board of Directors of Semco Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SEN) a natural gas distribution company until 2007.

To contact Edwina Rogers:
email: erogers@pcpcc.net
phone: (202) 724-3331
cell: (202) 674-7800

John Crosby

PCPCC Chairman

John B. Crosby, J.D., is the Executive Director of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) that proudly represents its professional family of 64,000 osteopathic physicians (D.O.s).  Through his leadership, the AOA promotes public health, encourages scientific research, serves as the primary certifying body for D.O.s, is the accrediting agency for all osteopathic medical colleges, and has federal authority to accredit hospitals and other health care facilities.

 John joined the AOA as Executive Director in 1997, following eight years of service as Senior Vice President for Health Policy at the American Medical Association. During his AOA tenure, the Association has increased membership by over 125%, doubled its contingency reserve, and launched numerous programmatic initiatives to advance women’s health, minority health, end-of-life care, and health system reform.

Notable accomplishments of John's also include the Campaign for Osteopathic Unity to make “D.O.” a household word throughout the United States, the first Unified Convention in the 112 year history of the AOA, the establishment of the Osteopathic International Alliance, the AOA's Branding Initiative, and its current Greatness Campaign.

From day one, John has asked the AOA staff to renew their commitment to providing the best member service possible. His staff motto – we can D.O. it! – is reflected in the AOA Strategic Plan and its six strategic paths to achieve greatness: Governance; Research; Education; Advocacy; Teamwork; and Membership. John has received several honorary degrees and awards, including the prestigious New York College of Osteopathic Medicine's Riland Medal for Public Service in 2006 and an AOA Presidential Citation in 2007. In 2004, the AOA received the Association Forum of Chicagoland’s Community Service Award, honoring our volunteer spirit as corporate citizens of Chicago. AOA staff has also been challenged to join John in a Family Fitness Program to promote physical fitness and public health.

John is an honors graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and the Ohio State University College of Law. Over the course of his career in law and politics, John has lectured at Harvard, Yale, in London and before several Congressional Committees and State legislatures. In 1969, John was named one of the Outstanding College Athletes in America and he has since competed in both the New York and Boston marathons. John and his wife, Mary Jo, have three children and four grandchildren.