John Boltri, M.D., F.A.A.F.P.
jboltri@med.wayne.edu

Dr. Boltri graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors from State University of New York in 1983. He received his medical degree from Ohio State University in 1987, and completed a Family Medicine residency at Akron City Hospital in 1990. He also completed an Academic Development and Leadership Fellowship at the McLennan County Research and Education Foundation Faculty Development Center of Texas. He has extensive experience in clinical practice, including a private practice that taught medical students. He is credited with re-engineering the family medicine inpatient service at the Medical Center of Central Georgia, where he served as director of the Transitional Residency Program.

Dr. Boltri has secured grants totaling $3.4 million from the National Institutes of Health. Some of his work has focused on building collaborative relationships among multi-disciplinary groups to improve community health. He co-implemented the first Southeastern Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Conference, recruited a wide range of investigators from across the United States to join his research team and secured supplemental grants to increase that team's diversity. He has received grants from numerous other organizations, including the Medcen Community Health Foundation, Alpha Omega Alpha, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, the Hatcher Foundation and the Department of Health and Human Services.

In 2009 he received the GO! Diabetes Award for mentoring a resident participant in a two-state enhancement project to improve management of patients with diabetes in family medicine residency programs sponsored by the Georgia Academy and Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians, and received a certificate of appreciation for Outstanding Service as Practicum Supervisor for the Master's of Public Health Program at Mercer University School of Medicine. He was named Fellow for the Coastal Research Group in 2007 and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2011.

Dr. Boltri was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society in 2004, was named Attending of the Year at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in 2001 and received a certificate of recognition from the American Academy of Family Physicians for participation as an Active Volunteer Teacher of Family Medicine in 1994.