Andrew Saal BS, MD, MPH

Dr. Andrew Saal attended the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine, and completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned an MPH degree in health policy from Loma Linda University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and board-certified in Clinical Informatics.
Andrew served many years with the US Indian Health Service on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. He joined a community health center in Flagstaff in 2000, helping it grow from 3 to 13 clinical sites over the next decade. Dr. Saal pioneered co-located behavioral health models in primary care in collaboration with several Medicaid regional behavioral health organizations.
Dr. Saal is currently the Chief Medical Officer of the Providence Community Health Centers in Rhode Island. He oversaw the transformation of eight primary care clinics to PCMH level 3 status. With a strong focus on population health, he helped launch the organization’s first Integrated Behavioral Health program – including nurse care management, community health workers, clinical informatics and primary care psychiatry. Dr. Saal has helped lead the health center in participating in a Medicare ACO since 2014, and is currently helping guide efforts to launch a Medicaid ACO.
He has held numerous faculty positions with medical schools in Arizona and Vermont. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He clinical interests include infectious diseases, improving access to primary care, and helping train the next generation of healthcare providers.