Diversity Program 2021 FINAL

Dean’s Alumni Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Robert B. Greifinger, MD ’71 is a health care
policy and quality management consultant.
His work focuses on the design, management,
and quality improvement in correctional
health care systems. He has extensive
experience in the development and
management of complex community and
institutional health care programs, and
strengths in the bridging of clinical and public
policy interests.
Dr. Greifinger, as a medical student at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine
(SOM), helped create the “Summer Program in Life Sciences” in 1970,
now known as our “Pre-Matriculation Summer Program”. In its
inception, this program was developed to enhance the preparation of
students from underrepresented backgrounds, with the intention of
diversifying the racial and socioeconomic diversity in the class,
recognizing the lack of diversity that existed.
Dr. Greifinger has published extensively in the area of correctional health
care. He has been a frequent speaker on public policy, communicable
disease control and quality management in corrections. Dr. Greifinger
was the principal investigator for the Report to Congress on Seizing
Public Health Opportunities through Correctional Health Care,
published in 2002. He was Co-Editor of the International Journal of
Prisoner Health from 2010 - 2016. Dr. Greifinger is the editor of Public
Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, Springer, New York
2007 (Second Edition in press early 2021). He currently serves as the
Federal Court-appointed medical monitor for the jails in Miami, New
Orleans, and Albuquerque.