Richard Guy Roberts MD, FAAFP, FCLM

Dr Roberts is a Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. A family physician and attorney, Dr. Roberts practiced 35 years in rural communities and provided the full scope of family medicine services: caring for patients of all ages, performing endoscopy and surgery, and caring for patients in the home, nursing home, hospice, and hospital, including those in birthing and intensive care units.

At the international level, Prof Roberts was President of World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) from 2010-2013. For ten years, he served on and chaired the WONCA Working Party on Quality in Family Medicine. He serves on the Steering Committee of the global Dialogue on Diabetes and Depression. He has consulted on primary care redesign for Brazil, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. He has supervised exchanges involving students and residents from Brazil, China, Nigeria, Portugal, and Spain. Professor Roberts has lectured and taught in more than three dozen countries. He led US physician delegations to Brazil, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. He has been a member of six US delegations to WHO International Consultations on urinary health. He served as the Founder and Chair of the SOAR (Six Organizations to Advance the Renewal of Family Medicine) International Colloquium, which was funded by Health Canada, convened in Toronto in 2006, and involved representatives from Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, andUnited States to discuss and redesign the future of family medicine.

Professor Roberts’s scholarship has focused on primary care, practice redesign, patient safety, quality improvement, and the development of decision support tools such as guidelines to improve clinical care. He has authored more than 200 publications, been an investigator on a dozen grants, served on more than 3 dozen national and international guideline panels, and given over 800 presentations.

After receiving a B.A. in philosophy and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Roberts matriculated to George Washington University for his medical degree. He completed a Family Medicine residency at UCLA-Santa Monica.