Robert Moser, MD
Robert Moser, MD
Medical Director - University of Kansas Health System, Kansas Clinical Improvement Collaborative
Dr. Robert Moser, M.D., is the medical director for the University of Kansas Care Collaborative and the Kansas Clinical Improvement Collaborative. He has served as the CLIA medical director for the Kansas Department of Laboratories since 2011. Previously, he was the founding executive director of the KUMC Kansas Center for Rural Health in Salina and served as Dean at the Salina KU School of Medicine from June 2019 until January 2023.
Dr. Moser is a Family Physician, having attended the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Smoky Hill Family Practice Residency in Salina, KS. He practiced Family Medicine for 22 years in rural western Kansas. He left a thriving regional rural health system in 2010 when he moved to academic medicine and joined the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, Department of Family and Community Medicine. There, he served as the Rural Outreach Director.
In January 2011, Governor Brownback appointed Dr. Moser to his cabinet as the Secretary and State Health Officer for the Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, a position he served in until December 2014. He left KDHE to join the faculty at KU SOM-KC and the University of Kansas Health System as the executive director of the Kansas Heart and Stroke Collaborative.
Dr. Moser is an associate clinical professor in public health practice with the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Department of Population Health, and Department of Family and Community Medicine in Kansas City.
The National Association for Rural Health (NRHA) announced Dr. Moser as their 2023 Louis Gorin Award recipient, an award for outstanding achievement in rural health care. Previous awards given to Dr. Moser include the KAFP Family Physician of the Year in 2006, the Kansas Public Health Association Samuel J. Crumbine Medal in 2015, and the Kansas Hospital Association Donald Wilson Visionary Award in 2019.
Dr. Moser has been married to Dalene for 42 years, and together, they have two grown daughters and two granddaughters.
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