Martin S. Lipsky MD

Martin Lipsky, MD served as Chancellor of South Jordan, Utah campus of Roseman University of Health Sciences from 2015 to 2019, when he retired. Dr. Lipsky currently serves as Adjunct Faculty for the University’s College of Dental Medicine.

He has worked in higher education for more than 25 years, including 10 years as the Dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. Prior to that, he served as Founding Chair for the Department of Family Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., and as the Assistant Dean for Generalism at the Medical College of Pennsylvania–Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

He began his career as a staff physician at the Frazier Mountain Community Health Center in Frazier, Calif., and has served as Medical Director and Program Director for a variety of hospitals and residency programs in California and Ohio.

Lipsky is actively involved with many national organizations, including memberships with the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

During his time at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, he received the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award and was recognized as one of the “Best Primary Care Doctors in the United States” by Town & Country magazine. He also received a President’s Achievement Award from Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. Lipsky has served as a member and leader of several committees and boards, including the National Kidney Foundation and Illinois Center of Excellence and Behavioral Health and Justice.

Dr. Lipsky’s scholarly activities include health disparities, medical education, and primary care. He is the former editor-in-chief of Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management and is currently on the editorial boards of Education for Health, Journal of Rural Health and Disease a Month. He has published more than 150 articles and book chapters and edited five books including Blueprints in Family Medicine and the AMA Home Healthcare Encyclopedia.

After obtaining his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, his residency was at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center and he did a fellowship in Academic Primary Care Medicine at Michigan State University. He also holds a bachelor of arts in chemistry and a master of science in bio-organic chemistry from Loyola-Marymount University at Los Angeles and the University of California at Santa Barbara, respectively.