Rufus Howe, RN, MN - American Healthways, Inc.

Rufus Howe has a background as an educator, exercise counselor, and internal medicine and family nurse practitioner. In these capacities, he has run a human performance laboratory, provided primary care, and participated in case and disease management initiatives. Rufus has published texts and articles in a wide range of topics to include clinical medicine, health promotion, health systems integration, case management, disease management, and clinical information system design. He has degrees from S.U.N.Y. at Cortland, NY (education); University of Southern Maine (nursing), and Oregon Health Sciences University (nurse practitioner). Rufus lives in Brentwood, Tennessee with his wife Ruth and has two grown sons Christopher and Gregory.