Jodi Abbott Named Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs

Jodi F. Abbott, MD, MHCM, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been named BUSM Assistant Dean in the Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education. She directs the core clerkship and is the department’s Vice Chair for Education. In 2007 she received BUSM’s Clinical Educator of the Year Award. A maternal fetal medicine specialist, she has developed numerous innovations in medical student quality improvement clinical initiatives leading to national student recognition. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Association for Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Teaching Award.

In her new role in OAA, she will integrate didactic and experiential patient safety and quality improvement education annually for every medical student. These projects will demonstrate that students can improve patient outcomes. Integration of these principles into core medical school education will directly reduce health care outcome disparities and improve the health of our community.