Dr. Bob Einterz

Former Director, AMPATH Consortium

Robert Einterz, MD, is the former director of the AMPATH Consortium and of the Indiana University Center for Global Health.

He completed specialty training in internal medicine in 1984 at Indiana University Medical Center and then served for one year as Chief Medical Resident at Wishard Memorial Hospital. Dr. Einterz directed a primary health care program in rural Haiti in 1986-7.

In 1989, he co-founded the Indiana University-Moi University, Kenya partnership which became the AMPATH partnership. He served as the interim coordinator of the Department of Medicine at Moi University School of Medicine in 1990-91.  Dr. Einterz was the co-director of the NIH-funded Moi Medical Informatics Fellowship and the Principal Investigator of numerous grants including projects funded by the Gates Foundation, the MTCT-Plus Initiative, and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).  The AMPATH partnership is responsible for a comprehensive system of health care services, research and training in western Kenya. AMPATH’s primary care and chronic disease management programs deliver healthcare services to a population of more than 8 million people in western Kenya.

Dr. Einterz directed the Westside Community Health Center in Indianapolis for nearly ten years. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Einterz also worked as a hospitalist and clinician-teacher at Eskenazi Hospital on the campus of Indiana University Medical Center

Dr. Einterz and his wife, Lea Anne, have three sons and three daughters. Dr. Einterz retired from Indiana University in 2020.