2025 ACCp Annual Conference

Thursday, September 18th

Clinical Care in Correctional Medicine over the Decades—what Does the Future Hold?

Objectives

  1. Examine the arc of improving the care of incarcerated persons over time in United States
  2. Highlight bright spots and barriers, old and new, in correctional health
  3. Discuss the future of the field

Dr. Robert Greifinger

Dr. Robert Greifinger 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 is Professor (Adjunct) of Health and Criminal Justice and Distinguished Research Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Dr. Greifinger has published extensively in the area of correctional health care. He is 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. Dr. Greifinger is the editor of Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, Springer, New York 2007, and Co-Editor, International Journal of Prisoner Health.