Julien J. Dedier, MD, MPH

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

Biography

Dr. Julien Dedier is co-founder of the Hospital Medicine Unit – a driver of patient care, quality improvement and education at Boston Medical Center. As associate director of the BUSM medicine clerkship Dr. Dedier spearheaded structural changes to standardize student write-ups and to introduce the clerkship’s educational goals/expectations to inpatient teams. In the outpatient domain, Dr. Dedier developed EHR-based systems for referring patients to community gyms and to an interdisciplinary hypertension management team. He and colleagues currently partner with Black churches in Boston to foster church cohesion and healthy behaviors using culturally tailored mobile applications.

Dr. Dedier's expertise and interests include:
1. The influence of ethnic, cultural and environmental factors on risk-related behaviors for cardiovascular disease and cancer among underprivileged urban minority groups.
2. Application of computer-assisted communication technologies to create behavioral interventions tailored to the ethnic, cultural and contextual characteristics of urban minorities of low socioeconomic status.

Publications

  • Published 3/1/2025

    Solomon DH, Paudel M, Chitineni S, Fernandes A, Pham T, Billa S, Yokose C, Tan K, Dedier JJ, Dubreuil MD, Fitzgerald JD, Hodder SL, Neogi T, Pillinger MH, Riggs KR, Saag KG, Shekelle PG, Tseng Z, Toprover M, Wei DS, Barry MJ, Choi HK. The Design of a Randomized Controlled Active Comparator Strategy Trial for Gout: Treat to Target Serum Urate Versus Treat to Avoid Symptoms. ACR Open Rheumatol. 2025 Mar; 7(3):e70012. PMID: 40126890.

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  • Published 11/1/2023

    Higgins MCSS, Diamond M, Mauro DM, Kapoor BS, Steigner ML, Fidelman N, Aghayev A, Chamarthy MRK, Dedier J, Dillavou ED, Felder M, Lew SQ, Lockhart ME, Siracuse JJ, Dill KE, Hohenwalter EJ. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Dialysis Fistula Malfunction. J Am Coll Radiol. 2023 Nov; 20(11S):S382-S412. PMID: 38040461.

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  • Published 8/31/2023

    Quintiliani LM, Dedier J, Amezquita M, Sierra-Ruiz M, Romero D, Murillo J, Mahar S, Goodman M, Kane JB, Cummings D, Woolley TG, Spinola I, Crouter SE. Community Walks: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a multilevel physical activity intervention for low income public housing residents. BMC Public Health. 2023 Aug 31; 23(1):1676. PMID: 37653386.

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  • Published 5/1/2022

    Lasser KE, Ilori TO, Dedier JJ. Kidney Disease Mortality in the USA: a Call for Eliminating Inequities. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 May; 37(6):1349-1350. PMID: 35266126.

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  • Published 6/22/2021

    Chandler PD, Clark CR, Zhou G, Noel NL, Achilike C, Mendez L, Ramirez AH, Loperena-Cortes R, Mayo K, Cohn E, Ohno-Machado L, Boerwinkle E, Cicek M, Qian J, Schully S, Ratsimbazafy F, Mockrin S, Gebo K, Dedier JJ, Murphy SN, Smoller JW, Karlson EW. Hypertension prevalence in the All of Us Research Program among groups traditionally underrepresented in medical research. Sci Rep. 2021 06 22; 11(1):12849. PMID: 34158555.

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Other Positions

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

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Education

  • Northwestern University, MD
  • Harvard University, MPH
  • University of Toronto, BSc

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