Christine A. Pace, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Christine Pace, MD, MSc is a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Vice President and Chief of Population Health Services for BMC Health System. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, an Internal Medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Boston University Addiction Medicine Fellowship, she has held a number of leadership roles focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs to improve integration of mental health services and substance use treatment with primary care; complex care management for high-risk individuals; and population health management for Medicaid recipients.

In her current role as Vice President and Chief of Population Health Services, she leads population health programs to support individuals and providers across BMHCS-affiliated Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and provides strategic oversight for the Grayken Center for Addiction and other system substance use disorder services. Dr. Pace provides primary care and addiction treatment within General Internal Medicine and is an attending on the Addiction Consult Service. She is a past recipient of a HRSA Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Clinician Educator Career Development Award.

Publications

  • Published 3/9/2026

    Schuering KM, Martin DP, Goldfarb D, Nahrgang E, Galbraith AA, Pace CA. Designing Complex Care Management Programs to Support Patients With Substance Use Disorder: An Essential and Overlooked Opportunity. J Ambul Care Manage. 2026 Apr-Jun 01; 49(2):E63-E72. PMID: 41807334.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 5/10/2025

    Lee CS, Cordova-Ramos EG, Rohsenow DJ, Mueser KT, Pace CA, Martin R, Colby SM, Lopez V, Morris M, Morgan JR, Kriegsman A, Drainoni ML. Care management staff perspectives on stigma and barriers to substance use treatment experienced by latine adults who use substances. Drug Alcohol Depend Rep. 2025 Jun; 15:100342. PMID: 40495911.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/5/2025

    Magane KM, Saitz R, Fielman S, LaRochelle MR, Shanahan CW, Pace CA, LaValley M, Penington K, Karzhevsky S, Hurstak E. Supporting primary care clinicians in caring for patients with alcohol use disorder: study protocol for Records for Alcohol Care Enhancement (RACE), a factorial four-arm randomized trial. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2025 Feb 05; 20(1):9. PMID: 39910606.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 11/25/2020

    Prom MC, Canelos V, Fernandez PJ, Gergen Barnett K, Gordon CM, Pace CA, Ng LC. Implementation of Integrated Behavioral Health Care in a Large Medical Center: Benefits, Challenges, and Recommendations. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2021 07; 48(3):346-362. PMID: 33241465.

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  • Published 10/1/2018

    D'Afflitti J, Lee K, Jacobs M, Pace C, Worcester J, Thornton S, Lasser KE. Improving Provider Experience and Increasing Patient Access Through Nurse Practitioner-Physician Primary Care Teams. J Ambul Care Manage. 2018 Oct/Dec; 41(4):308-313. PMID: 30148771.

    Read at: PubMed

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Other Positions

  • Faculty, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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Education

  • Harvard Medical School, MD
  • Boston University School of Public Health, MSc
  • Williams College, BA

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