The Physicians Foundation Annual Report 2024
The Physicians Foundation is dedicated to advancing its mission through research, education and innovative grantmaking that improves physician wellbeing, strengthens physician leadership, addresses patients’ drivers of health and lifts physician perspectives. In 2024, The Physicians Foundation:
Continued to fund ongoing research into critical health topics and supported on-the-ground initiatives through grant programs, including:
- The third national Primary Care Scorecard with the Milbank Memorial Fund. Developed by researchers at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care, The Health of US Primary Care: 2025 Scorecard report and its state data dashboard track key metrics of primary care performance, underscoring gaps at the national and state level.
- The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physicians Practice and Leadership (CPPL) at Weill Cornell Medicine and The Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Experience and Practice Excellence at Brigham and Women’s research that examined key topics related to the physician practice environment and the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective patient care. Key topics included hospital mergers and acquisitions, private equity and the impact of healthcare consolidation.
- Health Affairs collaboration to publish the Practice of Medicine series, which supports research on various topics affecting clinicians and patients. This research aims to reach stakeholders such as policymakers, administrators, clinical leaders, public health professionals and the media, who influence the direction of health care.
- Grants to 16 organizations related to physician perspectives, wellness and patients’ drivers of health, as well as several multi-year programs, including a telemedicine grant. Stories highlighting key drivers of health grant programs were published as part of the Let’s Take 5 to Address Drivers of Health campaign.
Elevated early-career physician leaders, including:
- The Foundation’s new Fellow, Deborah Rose, MD, a Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, whose work with the Foundation focused on addressing social and community needs of patients.
- A new Leadership Award Program to recognize the next generation of physician leaders for extraordinary actions in their practice or community. Through this program, the Foundation recognized two physicians in 2024: E. Mirna Mohanraj, M.D., as the recipient of the Medical Innovator Award, and Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., as the recipient of the Dr. Buz Cooper Award for Addressing Drivers of Health.
- The Physicians Foundation’s Leadership Institute at Brandeis University, which offers an opportunity for practicing physicians to participate in a 12-month course focused on advancing the practice environment, understanding key drivers of health and helping shape policy decisions.
Drove solutions to improve physician wellbeing and the physician practice environment and support physicians in their efforts to address patients’ drivers of health, including:
- Continued collaboration with the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation for the annual National Physician Suicide Awareness Day (#NPSADay) Vital Signs campaign to raise awareness of physician suicide and improve physician mental health, through a website, resources, social media campaigns and collaboration with over 150 supporting organizations.
- The Foundation’s annual Survey of America’s Physicians, focused on the wellbeing of medical students, residents and practicing physicians, as well as the impact of healthcare consolidation on the physician practice environment.
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) included two Foundation-led measures in the Physician Fee Schedule, which help physicians address patients’ drivers of health.
