Former NIMHD Director Speaks on Disparities in Patient-Clinician Communication
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD — the former director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities — delivered the 2026 Mark A. Moskowitz Memorial Lecture to the Section of General Internal Medicine on Friday, April 3. Now a professor emeritus at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Pérez-Stable shared his expertise on health disparities research and social determinants of health with a crowd of faculty and staff gathered on the BUMC campus. He emphasized the importance of patient-clinician communication that centers the patient, considers individual factors and cross-cultural issues, and ensures language concordance.
Later in the day, Dr. Pérez-Stable also presented “Health Disparities Science and Medical Care” for the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. 