Elizabeth G. Baxley

Department Chair, Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

Dr.  Baxley was named Chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in September 2003 and has served in that role for the past eight years. She was previously the Director of Faculty Development in USC’s Office of Continuing Medical Education and Faculty Development. She has also served as the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine’s Residency Program Director and Director of Education.

Dr. Baxley’s work over the last five years has focused heavily in the development and implementation of the patient-centered medical home and its actualization within University Specialty Clinics and in family medicine education both regionally and nationally. She is a nationally-known leader in her discipline in this area, and is frequently invited to speak on ambulatory QI and the PCMH across the country. She has co-directed two regional academic collaborative of multiple teaching practices from SC, NC and Virginia. She has also achieved individual NCQA recognition for Diabetes care, and her department’s teaching practice was recognized as a Level III PCMH by NCQA in early 2010.  Most of her recent scholarly work has been on the outcomes associated with practice redesign. She was a contributor to the Educational Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, released in November 2010, and currently serves as the Chair of the PCMH Task Force for the Association of Departments of Family Medicine as well as the Co-Chair of the Education and Training Task Force for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.

Before her appointment at USC, Dr. Baxley taught on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, and at Anderson Family Practice Residency Program in Anderson, South Carolina. She is a graduate of Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, where she earned a bachelor of science in zoology. She received a doctor of medicine from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. A family practice residency at Anderson Family Practice Residency, Anderson, South Carolina, was followed by a faculty development fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Dr. Baxley is board certified in family medicine. Throughout her career she has been honored with a number of distinctions, including three teaching advancement awards from the USC School of Medicine, the Halford Award for Leadership in Humane Education, and the American Academy of Family Physicians Exemplary Teaching Award. She recently completed the prestigious American Council on Education Fellows program, an intensive year-long leadership program for senior leaders in higher education.

Doctor of Medicine: University Of South Carolina School Of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, 1984
Faculty Development Fellowship: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1988
Residency: Anderson Family Practice Residency Program, Anderson, South Carolina, 1987
Board Certification: American Board Of Family Medicine, 1984
Recertified: 1993, 1999, 2005
Special Interests: Quality improvement; ambulatory practice redesign; faculty development