MEET OUR CONSULTANTS
Judith Steinberg, MD, MPH, FACP
Dr. Steinberg is a primary care internist and infectious disease specialist. After practice and clinical leadership roles at community health centers in Boston and primary care policy leadership as part of MA healthcare reform, she served as the Chief Medical Officer at the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the US Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) and as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Heath. She led the HHS Initiative to Strengthen Primary Health Care and the development, across 14 HHS agencies, of an HHS action plan to strengthen primary care. Dr. Steinberg is currently a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and a board member of Primary Care for All Americans, One Heart Worldwide, and the Guachipilincito, Honduras Affiliate of Shoulder to Shoulder Inc. She joined IPCI in 2024 as a trainer/consultant.
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All of Dr. Steinberg’s work to strengthen primary care has emphasized integration of primary care and behavioral health, with care delivered by a multidisciplinary team. In addition to her 30 years of clinical practice experience as a physician, team member, trainer, and clinical leader at community health centers and other safety net practices,
she brings expertise in integrated primary care health policy at the state and national levels. Integrated primary care depends on a well-trained, diverse workforce to staff multidisciplinary teams and optimal payment approaches that make the business model work. Dr. Steinberg can provide consultation and training on optimizing the policy landscape in which your provider organization and practices work. And, with a better understanding of payment models and their elements, including risk adjustment, attribution, prospective payments, and pay for performance, she can set you up for success in integrated primary care.
Alexander Blount, EdD
Dr. Blount is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School, where he founded the Center for Integrated Primary Care (CIPC). He has been developing clinical service models and training programs throughout his 45+year career. He coined the term “Integrated Primary Care,” and published the first book on the topic, Integrated Primary Care: The Future of Medical and Mental Health Collaboration, (Norton, 1998.) He created model programs in Behavioral Health Integration in the primary care practices of UMass Memorial Healthcare and created model team-based training programs for behavioral health clinicians and family medicine residents in the Worcester Family Medicine Residency. In 2007, he created the nation’s largest online training program in Primary Care Behavioral Health.
Dr. Blount has provided training and consultation to over 75 organizations, ranging from the Ministry of Health in Singapore, to the federal health agencies in the US, the AMA, state Medicaid and other statewide programs, multi-state non-profit health systems, FQHCs around the country, academic medical departments, and for-profit start-ups. His strength is being able to enlist members of the organization to move forward with a plan for team based whole person care that is tailored to their particular context, mission, staff, and patient population.
His newest book, Patient-Centered Primary Care: Getting from Good to Great, was published by Springer in August of 2019. This watershed volume collects and synthesizes the evidence on team-based patient-centered care, of which behavioral health integration is a central element. Dr. Frank DeGruy, Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Medical School, judged the book to be “of outsized, even monumental, importance.”
Michael Bruner, PsyD
Dr. Bruner is the Director of Behavioral Health at HealthSource of Ohio, a large federally qualified health center that serves roughly 90,000 people in underserved rural communities in Southwestern Ohio. As Director, he leads and manages a multi-site staff of Behavioral Health Clinicians, and designs/implements training for clinical psychology postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral practicum students as well as medical students from ATSU-SOMA and residents in Family Medicine from The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education. He also leads innovation and implementation of the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model at HealthSource. This involves not only
clinical care delivery founded on a multidisciplinary team, but solutions related to billing and administrative systems, clinical workflows, and service capabilities for the organization as a whole. He maintains boots on the ground by delivering direct patient care as a behavioral health consultant. Dr. Bruner’s team at HealthSource of Ohio has excellent retention, has consistently improved its reach across the organization, and has attained strong financial sustainability during his tenure as Director, all while maintaining excellent satisfaction from patients, primary care team members, and organizational leadership alike. He can help you do the same in your organization.
Dr. Bruner earned his PsyD at Xavier University and received training at Cherokee Health Systems in Knoxville, which is an exemplar for primary care and behavioral health integration. Mike joined the team at IPCI in 2023.