Guy Clifton
Senior Research Fellow, Health Policy Program
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As Senior Research Fellow for the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, Guy Clifton focuses on health care reform to cover the uninsured and on reform of the delivery system to reduce cost and improve quality. In addition, Dr. Clifton acts as the Health Policy Program’s primary liaison to the medical and provider communities.
As a result of his experiences with health system failure in Houston, Texas, Dr. Clifton, a neurosurgeon, turned his attention to health system reform in 2005. Before joining the New America Foundation, Dr. Clifton was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). He is the author of Flatlined: Resuscitating American Medicine (November 2008), in which he explains how the large number of uninsured in America adversely affects the care of the insured and proposes a policy initiative to reduce cost and improve the quality of health care.
Dr. Clifton is also a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, where he was founding chairman of the Neurosurgery Department and holds the Runnells Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery. Listed as one of the “Best Doctors in America” since 1996, he is internationally recognized for clinical research in the treatment of severe brain injury and the principle investigator of a multinational study of hypothermia in the treatment of severe brain injury. A fifth-generation Texan, Dr. Clifton is a graduate of Texas A & M University and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He served his medical residencies at the University of Minnesota and UTMB.
As a result of his experiences with health system failure in Houston, Texas, Dr. Clifton, a neurosurgeon, turned his attention to health system reform in 2005. Before joining the New America Foundation, Dr. Clifton was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). He is the author of Flatlined: Resuscitating American Medicine (November 2008), in which he explains how the large number of uninsured in America adversely affects the care of the insured and proposes a policy initiative to reduce cost and improve the quality of health care.
Dr. Clifton is also a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, where he was founding chairman of the Neurosurgery Department and holds the Runnells Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery. Listed as one of the “Best Doctors in America” since 1996, he is internationally recognized for clinical research in the treatment of severe brain injury and the principle investigator of a multinational study of hypothermia in the treatment of severe brain injury. A fifth-generation Texan, Dr. Clifton is a graduate of Texas A & M University and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He served his medical residencies at the University of Minnesota and UTMB.
