Bio
Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, is director of clinical innovations and director of primary care affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Shipman works with a wide range of health system leaders to promote effective innovations in ambulatory care delivery and teaching. A general pediatrician and health services researcher by training, he has studied the health care workforce extensively. He guides AAMC activities promoting emerging high-value ambulatory care models within AMCs and affiliates, with a focus on improving care at the interface of primary care and specialty care. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Shipman supports care transformation efforts on a limited basis, including a growing community health worker program and efforts to improve communication, coordination, and efficiency between primary care and specialty care physicians in the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and its affiliated community practices. He works with online students in the Dartmouth Institute MPH program on their practicum requirement. He received an MD from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, completed a residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins, where he also received his MPH.