Eftitan Akam, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Biography
Eftitan (Efi) Akam is an internal medicine and pediatrics hospitalist at Boston Medical Center. Her professional interests are at the intersection of health equity, climate change, and health policy. Dr. Akam focuses on understanding how institutional and governmental policies can lessen the effects of climate change on the health of marginalized communities. Dr. Akam received her BA from Harvard College, her MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and her MPH from Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her Med-Peds residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident. In 2023, Dr. Akam graduated from the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University.
Education
- Vanderbilt University, MD
- Harvard School of Public Health, MPH
- Harvard College, BA
Publications
- Published on 2/17/2022
Akam EY, Nuako AA, Daniel AK, Stanford FC. Racial Disparities and Cardiometabolic Risk: New Horizons of Intervention and Prevention. Curr Diab Rep. 2022 Mar; 22(3):129-136. PMID: 35175453.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/24/2021
Knight MG, Anekwe C, Washington K, Akam EY, Wang E, Stanford FC. Weight regulation in menopause. Menopause. 2021 May 24; 28(8):960-965. PMID: 34033603.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/21/2021
Malhotra S, Czepiel KS, Akam EY, Shaw AY, Sivasubramanian R, Seetharaman S, Stanford FC. Bariatric surgery in the treatment of adolescent obesity: current perspectives in the United States. Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2021 May; 16(3):123-134. PMID: 33879013.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/6/2019
Barnard ME, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Milne GL, Akam EY, Chan AT, Eliassen AH, Rosner BA, Shu XO, Terry KL, Xiang YB, Zheng W, Tworoger SS. Urinary PGE-M Levels and Risk of Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 11; 28(11):1845-1852. PMID: 31387969.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/30/2017
Shkirkova K, Akam EY, Huang J, Sheth SA, Nour M, Liang CW, McManus M, Trinh V, Duckwiler G, Tarpley J, Vinuela F, Saver JL. Feasibility and utility of an integrated medical imaging and informatics smartphone system for management of acute stroke. Int J Stroke. 2017 Dec; 12(9):953-960. PMID: 28358291.
Read at: PubMed