Grundy served as IBM's Global Director of Healthcare Transformation and Chief Medical Officer of IBM's Healthcare and Life Science Industry.[5] He promoted the medical home model during his time at IBM with Randy MacDonald, Dan Pelino, Sean Hogan, and Nick Donofrio.[6] Grundy developed strategies for shifting healthcare delivery towards consumer-focused, primary care based systems through the adoption of new philosophies,[7] primary care pilot programs,[8] incentives systems,[9] and information technology. He is one of 38 IBMers and the only physician selected into the IBM Industry Academy.[10]
Grundy is a social entrepreneur and speaker.[13][14] specializing in global healthcare transformation. His work primarily centers on advocating for the Patient-Centered Medical Home model. His work has been reported in Forbes,[15] the Economist,[16][17] and the Huffington Post.[18] Grundy spoke at TEDx Maastricht in a talk titled "Smarter healthcare by smarter use of data",[13] or NHS Confederation conference, Foundation for Healthcare Transformation.[19]
Grundy is the subject of a book on healthcare entitled Trusted Healers: Dr. Paul Grundy and the Global Healthcare Crusade by Dan Pelino with Bud Ramey, which was published in the fall of 2019.[20] He is also a co-author of the book Lost and Found: A Consumer's Guide to Healthcare and The Familiar Physician by Dr. Peter B. Anderson, Bud Ramey, and Tom Emswiller. He is the featured physician in the 2015 book The Familiar Physician by Dr. Peter Anderson with Bud Ramey (co-author) and Tom Emswiller.[21]
From 1979 to 1985, Paul Grundy was a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he taught at the School of Aerospace Medicine. He also served as a flight surgeon and Chief of Hospital Services in Korea.
From 1985 to 1994, he was a regional medical officer and counselor of the embassy for medical affairs at the U.S. Department of State. In this role, Grundy was responsible for leading the interactions between health and diplomacy, successfully organizing such activities as the Clinton/Yeltsin health initiative, a $157 million bilateral initiative in Russia. In his role with the Department of State, he was responsible for advising United States Ambassadors on healthcare programs for diplomatic posts. Working closely with Nelson Mandela and Helene Gayle and State Department Tex Harris, he set up the first U.S. policy and program addressing the HIV/AIDS[24][failed verification] epidemic in Africa. He worked to organize a Congressional fact-finding mission on the extent of the HIV/AIDS problem and drafted the first bill in Congress dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Grundy finished his career in the Department of State as a Minister Counselor.
From 1994 to 1997, Grundy was the medical director of Adventist Health Systems, Pennsylvania, and the medical director for the largest occupational medicine program in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
From 1997 to 2000, he was the corporate occupational medical director for International SOS, providing and coordinating care and medical assistance for multinational corporations.
Grundy has served as a director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education,[25] the body responsible for accrediting graduate medical training programs, Member National Advisory Board of the National Center for Inter-professional Education and the Medical Education Futures Study. Grundy is the president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a coalition that was established with the involvement of IBM in early 2006. The coalition is dedicated to advancing the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, a new approach to primary care aimed at reforming healthcare delivery. This reform is considered essential to maintaining US international competitiveness. It represents employers covering approximately 50 million people across the United States as well as physician groups representing more than 330,000 medical doctors, leading consumer organizations, and the top seven US health-benefits companies. Grundy is regarded as the "godfather" of the patient-centered medical home concept due to his advocacy for its model of care and his role in the creation of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.[26]
Following his retirement in 2018 from IBM, Grundy accepted a role with Innovaccer, Inc. of San Francisco.
Paul Grundy currently serves as president and a member of the board of directors for the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute and Foundation, a 501C3 non-profit dedicated to "ensure appropriate and personalized use of medication and gene therapies by advancing to a scientific, evidence-based and cost-effective decision-making process and a team-based, systematic approach to medication use."[27][28]
Awards
Grundy won the 2016 Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award[29] for his life's work and dedication to the medical home model of care. He also won the Tim Ferriss Globetrotter Award 2010 from VT.[3] He received the Defense Superior Service Award for outstanding service addressing HIV/AIDS and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal.[1]
Grundy was named an Ambassador for Healthcare Denmark in October 2014,[30] a role in which he shares best practices from the Danish Healthcare system with doctors in the United States and other parts of the world.[31]
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