Subcommittee Member: John C. Fortney
John C. Fortney, Ph.D.
Professor
Director
Division of Population Health
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine University of Washington
John C. Fortney, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the director of the Division of Population Health. He is also a research career scientist at the HSR&D Center for Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and director of the Virtual Care QUERI Program.
For the past 32 years, Dr. Fortney's research has focused on issues of access to care, especially the delivery of mental health services in rural primary care clinics. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Health Services Research & Development Service.
