Leadership Team

Gary L. Filerman, Ph.D., President

Gary Filerman is the president of Atlas Health Foundation. He has had a long career in health and social services education and policy making. Dr. Filerman has been a consultant to the VHA Undersecretary on reorganization and on setting up the VHA Office of Rural Health.

His career in health administration education, international development and workforce policy includes serving as professor and chair of the Georgetown University Department of Health Services Administration, professor and interim chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at George Washington University, the first president of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), associate director of the Pew Commission on the Future of the Health Professions, International Vice President of Planned Parenthood, Senior Health Advisor at the Academy for Educational Development, and Brookings Institution guest scholar.

Dr. Filerman has been a consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson and W.K. Kellogg foundations, the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Association of Academic Health Centers, and over 100 educational and health institutions in 35 countries. Dr. Filerman also headed planning for the 1997 Tashkent conference on the future of medical education in the former USSR.

He has authored over 85 publications and has contributed 80-plus years of concurrent service on nonprofit boards. His B.A., M.H.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are from the University of Minnesota, which conferred on him the University Regent’s Distinguished Contribution Award. AUPHA’s endowed Filerman Prize is the highest recognition of individual achievement in health administration education.