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Philip R. Boulter, MD, FACE
Dr. Philip Boulter is a healthcare consultant and 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 has 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 Partnerships, has chaired the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) sub-committee on Patient Safety, and has 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.  Dr. Boulter presently serves as Medical Director of the Tufts Health Care Institute of Tufts University School of Medicine, as Senior Consulting Physician for Helms & Company, Inc., as well as 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.  Dr. Boulter is an Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He is 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 Brandies 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 New England Medical Center.  Dr. Boulter is the author of a number of publications as well as a frequent lecturer on issues of healthcare policy, healthcare quality, and physician leadership.

 
Consulting Medical Directors
 
Marc M. Edelstein, MD, PhD
Dr. Marc Edelstein is a former Chief Medical Officer and Co-Director for the Tufts Health Care Institute (THCI) and Tufts University School of Medicine Office of Continuing Education (TUSM/OCE). Dr. Edelstein has more than 25 years experience in both clinical and administrative health care. He served as the CEO for a large community-based Physician Organization in the Greater Boston area as well as a senior Physician Executive in several roles, including Chief Medical Officer for a large Florida-based, not-for-profit Managed Care Health Plan. He has practiced medicine in a number of clinical settings including as a fulltime faculty member of the University of Miami School of Medicine. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Edelstein also earned a PhD in Philosophy/Medical Ethics. He has served on several institutional Ethics Committees and taught courses in both the Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics.