Calvin CJ Sia, MD, FAAP is among a select group of national leaders in primary care and the patient-centered medical home to receive the distinguished Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award.
Dr. Calvin Sia, Pediatrician[/caption]Dr. Sia will be honored in Washington DC in November, 2015 for his decades-long commitment to providing family-centered, pediatric care and for his revolutionary work leading and promoting the medical home movement across the pediatric community and beyond.
Dr. Calvin Sia, photo courtesy of Hawai’i Pacific Health.
Dr. Sia played a key role in establishing a standard definition of a pediatric medical home and promoted the concept that “every child deserves a medical home.” As such, Dr Sia co-authored a landmark policy statement on medical home and patient-centered care that was published in Pediatrics in 2002. He further advanced the medical home concept and an integrated community based system of care for children with special health care needs in Hawai’i.
Through support of Maternal Child Health Bureau grants, the concept was subsequently accepted nationally and adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics as the Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs. Dr Sia served as chairperson of the National Center’s advisory committee from its inception through 2014.
Dr. Sia also is a board member of Hawai’i Pacific Health, whose medical center, Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children, is a key training site for JABSOM MD students and MD Residents in Pediatrics and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health.