Linda Niebauer
Communications CoordinatorLinda began work at the CU Department of Family Medicine in the early ’70s as the residency program coordinator, and was among the early leaders in the development of practice-based research networks having laid the groundwork for the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network. She played a similar role for SNOCAP, four Colorado practice-based research networks. She was part of the RWJF national program office, Prescription for Health; and communications director for two Colorado Health Foundation-sponsored programs, Advancing Care Together and UPSTREAM Together; designed to better integrate behavioral health and primary care in Colorado, and to work with communities to prevent mental, emotional and behavioral problems. She works with a small strategic communications team with the family medicine chair to keep a large group of folks connected through newsletters, monthly meetings, innovative lectures, the Precipice magazine and salons. Recently she began working with the Larry A. Green Center team to assist with a host of Colorado activities related to the primary care measures initiative and the Aurora Health Commons project.