David R. Garr, M.D.

Office address: 19 Hagood Avenue, Suite 802, PO Box 250814 Charleston, SC 29425 Telephone/Fax: (843) 792-4431 / (843) 792-4430 (Fax) Email address: garrdr@musc.edu Departmental and administrative position(s): Executive Director, South Carolina AHEC Associate Dean for Community Medicine

Education / Training:

College: Duke University
MD: Duke Medical School
Residency: Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York
Fellowship: Cancer Prevention Research Fellowship, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Courses Taught:

Third Year Family Medicine Clerkship Preceptor

Positions in academic / professional groups:

Board of Governors, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2000-2002
President-Elect (2002-2004) and President 2004-2006, Association for Prevention Teaching and Research
Co-Chair, National Healthy People Curriculum Task Force, 2003-present
Board of Directors, Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, 2003-2007

Selected honors / awards:

Distinguished Educator Award, The 1st Annual Conference of the South Carolina Rural Health Association, Columbia, South Carolina, January 1997
Special Recognition Award, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, March 2000
Selected for inclusion in the listing of The Best Doctors in America, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006
Nominated for the 2005 MUSC Health Sciences Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in the Educator-Mentor category
Nominated for the Golden Apple Award by MUSC medical students, 1992, 2001, 2005

Research / academic / clinical interests:

Clinical prevention and population health
Hhealth care to rural and underserved populations
Interprofessional education

Selected or recent publications:

Shealy, RM, Simpson WM, Lee FW, Best CL, Kennedy E, Carson DS, Garr DR. The gaping hole: Physicians are missing from the front line of disaster preparedness training. The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association 2006; 101(1):11-13

Allan J, Agar T, Cashman S, Cawley JF, Day C, Douglass CW, Evans CH, Garr DR, Maeshire R, McCarthy RL, Meyer SM, Riegelman R, Seifer SD, Stanley J, Swenson M, Teitelbaum HS, Timothe P, Werner KE, Wood D. Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework for Health Professions. Am J Prev Med 2004; 27(5):471-6

Riegelman RK, Evans CH, Garr DR. Why a Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Famework? Am J Prev Med 2004; 27(5)

Blue AV, Chessman AW, Geesey ME, Garr DR, Kern DH, White AW. Medical Students’ Perceptions of Rural Practice Following a Rural Clerkship. Fam Med 2004; 36(5):336-40

Garr DR, Commentary on the Case-Based Series in Population-Oriented Prevention. Am J Prev Med 2003; 24(45):164-165

Garr DR, Lackland DT, Wilson DB. Prevention Education and Evaluation in U.S. Medical Schools: A Status Report. Acad Med 2000; 75(7 suppl):S14-S21