Dr. Peter A. Boling is a Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where he leads Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine. He helped develop and lead a 180-physician IPA in the mid 1990’s. Geriatric program development work began in 1984 when he started and has since led the VCU House Calls program. His group also provides geriatric ambulatory care, and added nursing home practice (1996), a post-hospital Transitional Care program (2000), inpatient Geriatric consults (2002), and PACE (2009) to its portfolio. Every VCU medical student makes house calls, visits a nursing home, receives a specific curriculum, and receives a grade in geriatrics.

Dr. Boling is a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, recipient of the Nascher-Manning career award (2000), past-president of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians (AAHCP) and President of the Virginia Geriatrics Society. As part of an ongoing personal campaign to restore housecalls to the mainstream of American medicine, he co-led work to increase Medicare physician payment for house calls (1995-8) and domiciliary visits (2001) and to design the Independence at Home legislation, to be implemented with the 2010 PPACA. This work was featured in the Making a Difference segment of the NBC Evening News on December 2, 2009.

Dr. Boling wrote The Physicians’ Role in Home Health Care (Springer, 1997). He has spoken and published widely on home care and general geriatric care topics, as well as health policy, including the February 2009 Clinics in Geriatric Medicine which he edited and co-wrote. He has advised Medicare on home health care quality, and chaired the Home Care Advisory Committee for the Joint Commission 2008-2009.