Dr. Sabrina Assoumou Awarded April Distinguished Faculty of the Month

The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Sabrina Assoumou, MD, MPH, is April’s Distinguished Faculty of the Month.

Dr. Assoumou is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, BUSM, and an attending physician in the section of Infectious Diseases, BMC. Her research focuses on medical complications of substance use including HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). She is interested in models of care and on improving the continuum of care for individuals with HIV and/or HCV.

Dr. Assoumou graduated magna cum laude from Williams College and received her MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She completed a combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at Brown University and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Harvard University’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she was awarded the Finland Award for Research Excellence. She earned a Masters of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The nomination states: “Dr. Assoumou has made extraordinary contributions to the success and vitality of the DOM by serving on critical department and university committees, including the Faculty Development & Diversity and the BU Minority Physician Recruitment committees. She interviews both prospective residents and infectious diseases fellows. She has recently agreed to serve on the search committee for Chief of the General Internal Medicine Section of the DOM. She has served on these as well as other committees, while obtaining independent research funding, publishing regularly, teaching and continuing to provide care for patients.”

 “Dr. Assoumou is an example of the classic “triple threat” while making time to be an exemplary citizen of BUSM.”

Congratulations!