Samuel Cykert

Samuel Cykert is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UNC. He is a faculty member of the Greensboro Area Health Education Center. His medical practice is at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, where he is Chief of the Internal Medicine Program as well as Residency Program Director. Dr. Cykert has 10 years of experience in health services research during which he has converted small budgets into national projects with policy implications. This work includes a local and national survey of primary care physicians’ acceptance of publicly insured patients (Archives of Family Medicine 1993;2:1153-5; J Gen Intern Med 1995;10:345-8), a national survey of physicians’ attitudes toward capitation (Am J Managed Care 1996;2:681-5; J Gen Intern Med 1997;12:192-4), and health utility work that is particularly applicable to health disparities research (J Gen Intern Med 1999;14:217-222; Med Decis Making 2003; 23:167-176). Other important experience includes his leadership of 2 internal medicine fellowship cohorts (consisting of 8 and 12 fellows) over 4 years leading to the completion of multi-centered research projects on spirituality in the setting of internal medicine practices and the management of chronic pain patients in primary care. A third cohort is currently creating measurements that connect health outcomes to cultural competence training. Dr. Cykert has also managed a large budget (as the Greensboro director of the Making Prevention Work Project).