Richard Antonelli

Richard C. Antonelli, MD, MS, FAAP, is Medical Director of the Children’s Hospital Boston Integrated Care Organization, and Associate Medical Director for Quality of the Physicians’ Organization at Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School. Before that, he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Academic General Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Between 1987 and 2005, he was in full-time, communitybased general pediatrics, founding Nashaway Pediatrics in Sterling, Massachusetts. Since 1987, his clinical work has focused on providing comprehensive, family-centered care for all children, youth, and young adults, but especially for those with special healthcare needs. He is a member of the Project Advisory Committee of the National Center for Medical Home Implementation at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He has published data about the outcome effi cacy and cost of care coordination services for children and youth with special healthcare needs and their families in primary care settings. He has extended this work by measuring what families and non-physician care coordinators do to support care coordination. Dr. Antonelli has also published work defi ning mechanisms for integration and coordination of care across systems including the development of strategies and interventions to improve collaborative efforts between families, primary care providers, and subspecialists. He serves on the Steering Committee for Care Coordination at the National Quality Forum and as an advisor to the Patient-Centered Medical Home measurement tool work group at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). In conjunction with researchers and policy representatives from internal medicine and family medicine, he represents the Academic Pediatrics Association in the current national initiative Establishing a Policy Relevant Research Agenda for the Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach. He co-authored Making Care Coordination a Critical Component of the Pediatric Health System: A Multidisciplinary Framework, supported by The Commonwealth Fund.