Medical Director of Care Transformation and Primary Care

Vancouver Clinic

Dr. Chrisman joined the Vancouver Clinic in 2007 as a Family Medicine and Sports Medicine physician. In 2009 he became an inaugural member of TVC’s executive committee and took on the role of Dept. Chair of the Urgent Care and Sports Medicine departments. In 2010 he was selected to serve as an assistant medical director for personnel and by 2012 this role grew to a medical directorship of primary care. Dr. Chrisman served as the Primary Care medical director for the Vancouver Clinic until late 2015 when he accepted the role of Medical Director of Care Transformation to focus on TVC’s efforts to improve population health. He serves in this role today. During his time as Primary Care medical director he led a revolution in primary care access taking TVC from an average time to appointment of weeks, to one of hours.