Gordon Moore, MD, MPH

Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Gordon Moore is Professor of Population Medicine at HMS. He trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In the late 1960’s he joined the founding group of Harvard Community Health Plan, the country’s first academically sponsored HMO, where he eventually became medical director and chief operating officer. While there, he built its first health center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and practiced as a primary care internist there for 40 years. In his academic work he designed and started the New Pathway, a new curriculum at Harvard that has become a worldwide model for medical education. He later became program director of the Robert Wood Johnson initiative to train graduate doctors and nurses in systems thinking and practice improvement. His most special interests are the design, organization, and management of health care delivery systems. He is lead author of Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Managers and Clinicians Should Care), published by Oxford Press in 2018.