"Indiana Physician Recipient of the Prestigious Harvard Scholarship"
Reprinted with permission from Frontline Physician, Winter 2005, a publication of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Vipin Jain, alumni of the IU Family Practice Residency, has been awarded a scholarship from the prestigious Harvard University. During the month of October 2005, Harvard School of Public Health organized a specialty workshop of ambulatory health care in a community health setting.

Dr. Jain has taken many chronic disease initiatives as a medical director of the Madison County Community Health Center in Anderson, Indiana. Dr. Frank Campbell, a retired family physician who also serves as chairman of the center's clinical committee, states, "I strongly feel that Dr. Jain's work on diabetes is meeting the chronic disease needs of the uninsured at the national level which is evidenced by the recognition has has received from the leading organizations such as the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the American Diabetes Association.

Dr. Jain feels that this Harvard scholarship will help secure an ongoing partnership with the esteemed Harvard faculty in designing an efficient, cost effective and collaborative model of chronic disease management that overcomes health disparities ailing the uninsured and underserved. Dr. Jain's work in this field has been featured in Anderson's The Herald Bulletin, the American Diabetes Association's DocNews and the American Medical Association's American Medical News, amongst others.

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