Dr. Freeman has been Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine for the University of Kansas School of Medicine since January, 2002.
A graduate of Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill., Dr. Freeman received residency training in family practice at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Following two years of practice at El Rio Santa Cruz Community Health Center in Tucson, Ariz., he completed a faculty development fellowship in family medicine and general preventive medicine training at the University of Arizona. He later completed a National Institute for Program Director Development fellowship through the AAFP and the Association of Family Practice Residency Directors, Leawood, Kansas.
Dr. Freeman returned to Chicago in 1983 where he served for nearly 15 years as senior attending physician and director of faculty development in the department of family practice at Cook County Hospital. In 1987, he began a concurrent 10-year tenure at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His roles at the university included adjunct associate professor of health professions education and clinical associate professor of family practice. Between 1996 and 1997, he also served as adjunct associate professor for the University of Illinois School of Public Health. In 1995, he was named Illinois Family Practice Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians.
In 1997, Dr. Freeman moved to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where he became professor and residency program director of family practice. A year later, UTHSCSA honored him with its Family Practice Administrator of the Year Award. He served as interim chair of family and community medicine at ATHSCSA and chief of family practice at University Hospital, San Antonio, from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, Dr. Freeman was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to help develop a family practice program at a medical university in San Paulo, Brazil. He is currently receiving graduate Physician in Management training from the American College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Freeman has published a number of papers, books and book chapters concerning teaching and is conducting three related studies. He is editor of the "Innovations in Family Medicine Education" section of Family Medicine, and reviews for that journal, Journal of Family Practice, and Consultant. His research interests include medical education, faculty development and curricular innovation. Other areas of interest include diabetes, contraception and health care for underserved populations.
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