Topic: Medical School Loan Program

Interview of Robert Moser, March 10, 2026

Interviewed by Robert St. Peter

Dr. Moser had an unusual background because he went to pharmacy school before deciding to go to medical school. This interview really highlights the difficulties of practicing medicine in a rural area, and shows Moser's innovations in responding to those challenges. He did his residency in his hometown of Tribune; he also credits the business training in Pharmacy school as being helpful in responding to those challenges which included workforce issues. Dr. Moser joined Greely county with Wallace county, expanded the staffing and used a multijurisdictional approach to community health in those two counties. Delivering Show Morebabies was a problem - no backup, no personal time. Moser left Tribune in 2010 to work as Governor Brownback's Secretary of Health and Environment but left 3 years later because of opposition to medicaid expansion. In 2014 he joined the Kansas Heart-Stroke Collaborative - a CMS innovation - and also taught population health and family medicine at KU Medical Center. He describes what they discovered about heart attacks and strokes when they surveyed emergency room data which they used to develop evidence-based guidelines. Show Less