Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Faculty

Philip Curd,M.D., MSPH
Assistant Professor
859-218-2233
philip.curd@email.uky.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Philip R. Curd, received his MD and MSPH degrees from the University of Kentucky. He is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He is a full-time assistant professor with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health. Prior to entering the specialty of Preventive Medicine in 1996, Dr. Curd was a family practitioner in rural Kentucky for 25 years. He is the founder of the White House Clinic community health center, and served as its medical director for many years, and was briefly its interim executive director. Dr. Curd was chair of Berea Hospital’s Board of Directors during the 14 month period when its long-term administrator retired, and when strategic planning allowed the hospital to keep its doors open by consummating an ownership arrangement with a much larger health care system.

Dr. Curd has received several awards in connection with his work including the Sargent Shriver Award for Humanitarian Service and the Health Hero award of the Fayette County Medical Society.

Research Interest & Projects

Dr. Curd's areas of special professional interest are community and cardiovascular health promotion, incorporating wellness initiatives into a residential substance abuse program, correctional health care systems, work site health promotion, and occupational health. He has developed a compendium of best practices in community cardiovascular health promotion which is tied into an electronic database of references. A recent research project involved a survey of hospitals to determine the extent to which they are involved in community health promotion. Current research involves a study of the process and outcome of introducing a wellness initiative into a residential corrections-associated substance abuse program that is a therapeutic community.