Dr. Philip Boulter has served as Medical Director of Tufts Health Care Institute since its founding in 1995. In this role, he is an integral member of the Institute’s leadership team in planning, conducting and evaluating educational programs and activities for physicians and other health care professionals.

Dr. Boulter recently retired as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Tufts Health Plan. While at Tufts Health Plan, Dr. Boulter’s responsibilities included strategic planning, care management program, quality assurance, and clinical services. In addition, Dr. Boulter served as founder and president of the Alliance for Healthcare Improvement, a consortium of non-profit health plans in Massachusetts collaborating on quality initiatives. He served on the board of the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, chaired the America ’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) sub-committee on Patient Safety, and served on a number of advisory commissions including the Northeast Advisory Board, the Advisory group on the future of clinical research, and the Executive Committee of the Managed Care/Public Health Partnership Taskforce. Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan, Dr. Boulter served in leadership positions in a large multi-specialty group practice. As Medical Director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic Concord division, he was responsible for incorporating managed care principles into clinical practice and served as Regional Medical Director for Mathew Thornton Health Plan. 

In addition to his role as Medical Director for Tufts Health Care Institute, Dr. Boulter is a Senior Consulting Physician for Helms & Company, Inc., and Chair of the New Hampshire Citizen’s Health Institute Task Force on Quality of Care (Governor appointee).

Dr. Boulter is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine and a member of the American College of Physician Executives and Fellow of the American College of Clinical Endocrinology. Dr. Boulter also served as a physician executive mentor in the Executive Leadership Program of the AHIP.  He has been a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University ; the Heller School ’s MBA program at Brandeis University ; and the Tufts University Medical School ’s M.D/MBA program.  He is a faculty member of the Health Services Research Fellowship program at Tufts Medical Center . Dr. Boulter is the author of a number of publications as well as a frequent lecturer on issues of health care policy, health care quality, and physician leadership.