Department of Family and Community Medicine
Our mission is to enhance the health of the population of our
community, state, country and the world.
- Excellent and innovative teaching of primary care
- Delivering high quality family and community-oriented primary care to patients
- Discovering new knowledge to improve health care processes and outcomes
Set up an appointment at either our Baylor Family Medicine practice or our Baylor Clinic location.
Message from the Chair
The Department of Family and Community Medicine is the third largest department within Baylor College of Medicine. Dedicated to high-quality primary care, the department’s faculty and staff strive to optimize the health of different populations through the department’s education, clinical affairs, community health, international health and research programs.
Since my tenure as chair began in 1997, the department has achieved some very significant milestones. We have established a well-funded research program and a federally funded primary care research fellowship; implemented a community-oriented primary care research initiative; strengthened our family medicine residency program; established a federally funded faculty professional development program; and been designated as a Collaborating Center for Family and Community Medicine by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization. I invite you to learn more about us by visiting the departmental programs at this site. We hope that you will become as excited as we are about the opportunities in our department research programs.
Stephen J. Spann, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor and Chair
Richard M. Kleberg Senior Chair
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine