Gordon T. Moore, MD, MPH is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and did his residency training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, after which he received a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Moore is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Since 1972, he has worked in managed care. He joined the non-profit, Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) as a health center director, became a member of the Plan's executive committee, which guided its strategic development during its critical first years, and ultimately served as the Plan's Medical Director and Chief Operating Officer. HCHP is the country's largest and oldest academically affiliated Health Maintenance Organization.

In 1983, Dr. Moore became the Director of Teaching Programs at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (as HCHP is now known), where he helped Harvard Pilgrim become one of the major teaching sites for Harvard Medical School and directed the New Pathway project where he was responsible for the design, implementation, and administrative direction of Harvard's new curriculum. He conducted and reported a program evaluation of the New Pathway. Under his leadership, the Harvard Plan and medical school started the country’s first academic department fully based in a managed care organization. Dr. Moore is now Professor in this Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention.

In addition to designing education programs for medical students, residents, and other health professionals, his work has included major evaluative studies of medical school and graduate educational programs. Dr. Moore has been the outside evaluator of the Health of the Public Program of the Rockefeller Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts (1987-92). From 1990-96, he was the national project director of the evaluation of the Johnson Foundation's national initiative for "Preparing Physicians for the Future."

His research is in the areas of educational strategies in health care management of health care organizations, ambulatory health services, health policy, and effectiveness of primary care.