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Robert F. St. Peter, M.D., President and CEO, joined the Kansas Health Institute in 1998. At KHI, he is responsible for the overall operation and strategic direction of the organization under the direction of the board of directors. Developing relationships with strategic partners in Kansas and nationally, working with the board of directors and national advisory committee, interacting with funding organizations and overseeing strategic planning are his primary activities.

Dr. St. Peter is a physician with experience in health services research and health policy development. Prior to joining the Kansas Health Institute, he served as Senior Medical Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research and the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, D.C. He also served as a Health Policy Adviser on the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources during consideration of comprehensive health care reform legislation in 1993−95, and as the Luther L. Terry Senior Fellow in Preventive Medicine in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His research has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Pediatrics and other journals.

He currently serves on the boards of directors of AcademyHealth, the National Network of Public Health Institutes and the Coalition for Health Services Research. He is a member of the Council of Sponsors. He has previously served on the boards of directors of the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County (KS) and Wheatlands Administrative Services, and served on the Technical Advisory Group to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the creation of the Health and Society Scholars program.

Dr. St. Peter received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and his medical degree from Duke University. He completed his residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He was an international health fellow in Nigeria, West Africa, and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California San Francisco/Stanford University. He is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and has previously held faculty appointments at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, the University of California San Francisco, and George Washington University in Washington, D.C.