John W. Saultz, MD, professor and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, delivered the sixth Annual Robert R. Huntley, MD, Lecture at UNC last Wednesday. The Huntley Lecture is the culminating event of the 4-day Huntley Visiting Professorship and strives to raise awareness of how critical research is to the role of family medicine and primary care in the United States.

The Visiting Professorship and lecture is sponsored by the UNC Department of Family Medicine and was established by Joan C. Huntley, PhD, in tribute to her late husband, Robert R. Huntley, MD, a former faculty member at UNC who went on to become Associate Director of Program Development at the National Center of Health Service Research and later, Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Georgetown University. During his lecture, Dr. Saultz discussed the value of continuity of care and discussed both past research and future research needs around the subject. He noted that current evidence strongly supports an association between relational continuity of care and care that is of higher quality and of lower cost.