Macaran Baird MD, MS

Macaran (Mac) Baird, MD, MS, is professor and head of the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In addition, he is board of directors’ chair for UCare Minnesota, the fourth largest Minnesota HMO. Baird began his medical career in 1978 as a rural family physician in Wabasha, Minnesota. He has held academic positions in Oklahoma, New York, and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Baird served on the Robert Wood Johnson Depression in Primary Care National Advisory Council and co-chaired the Institute of Medicine Report on Health and Behavior. He is a past president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), past president of the STFM Foundation Board of Directors, and board member of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA). In November 2008, he received the CFHA Donald A. Bloch Award for significant contributions to the field of collaborative health care. He was a member of a national panel of experts invited in 2010 and 2013 to work with the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia to encourage government and insurers efforts to integrate behavioral health and prevention services into primary care. His research foci are integration of behavioral medicine into primary care, population-based health, family therapy, and improving the care of patients with chronic illness.