Rick Kellerman, MD, has served as Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine since December 29, 1996. In this position, Dr. Kellerman oversees family medicine education for medical students, the three KUSM-Wichita sponsored family medicine residency programs at Smoky Hill – Salina, Via Christi Regional Medical Center and Wesley Medical Center and postgraduate activities.

Dr. Kellerman was in rural solo practice in Plainville, Kansas from 1982 to 1988 and was an active volunteer preceptor for medical students. Between 1988 and 1996, he served as the Program Director of the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency Program in Salina, Kansas. Under his leadership the obstetrics, procedural, emergency and behavioral science curriculum were improved and the program moved to a new residency office. Smoky Hill received the “ Outstanding Rural Health Program in America” award from the National Rural Health Association in 1996.

Currently, Dr. Kellerman is Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). He served as President of the AAFP from 2006-2007; president of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians in 1992 and as Kansas delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates from 1997 to 2002. He was elected to the AAFP Board of Directors in 2002 and chaired the AAFP Commission on Legislation and Governmental Affairs. He has also served on the AAFP Publications Committee, the Home Study Self-Assessment Advisory Board, as Board Liaison to the Commission on Health Care Services, the Commission on Membership and Member Services, the Commission on Quality and Scope of Practice, the Committee on Rural Health, the Committee on Chapter Affairs and the Committee of Special Constituencies. Currently he is on the AAFP Governance Committee and Screening Committee. He served as the moderator and editor for the AAFP Home Study Audio Program.

Dr. Kellerman has also served on the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Legislative Affairs Committee and as a Trustee on the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.

Dr. Kellerman served as a Public Health Service Primary Care Health Policy Fellow in Washington, D.C. in 1997. He was the physician representative on the Kansas Hospital Association Board of Directors and was on the Board of Directors of the Medical Society of Sedgwick County Kansas. He served as the organizing chair of the Primary Care Residency Directors Council of Kansas in 1995. He has been active with Project Access in Wichita and volunteers at local indigent clinics. In 1996 he received the Region VII National Health Service Corps Certificate of Excellence for his work on behalf of the medically underserved. He has published in national journals on practice-based research conducted in rural settings.

Dr. Kellerman is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He served as chief resident of the Wesley Family Medicine Residency Program in Wichita in 1981 and completed a Clinical Teaching Fellowship at the McLennan County Medical Education and Research Foundation in Waco, Texas in 1982.

Other awards include the national STFM New Faculty Award in 1989, the KUSM-Wichita Golden Chair Award in 1999 and selection by medical students as the KUMC Graduation Marshall in 2000. In 2003, Dr. Kellerman was the inaugural recipient of the Kansas Board of Regents Faculty Award.

 

E-mail: RKELLERM@kumc.edu