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Research is integrated across the section: all faculty, not just full clinician investigators, engage in innovative research topics of interest. Areas of research excellence in GIM include clinical addiction science, health systems science, medical education, chronic disease management, sexual and gender minority health, chronic musculoskeletal diseases, and refugee health. Substance use disorder is GIM’s strongest research domain, and it continues to grow with projects on stimulant use disorder, SUD in adolescent populations, novel work in target trial emulation, and many other areas.
The Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit comprises clinical, research, and administrative members who work in clinical programs and grant-funded research and training programs in the field of addiction medicine. The CARE Unit hosts numerous research projects seeking to understand the complexities of substance use, addiction risks, and co-morbidities for patients and communities. Investigators are actively exploring innovative interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with substance use.
The Boston HEALHS (Health Equity & community-Aligned Learning Health System)is creating learning health system training and infrastructure across Boston Medical Center. Through Boston HEALHS, researchers at BMC are eligible to receive funding to gain skills, expertise, and experience in LHS competencies, as applied within health care systems that serve individuals with multiple complex health conditions.
Other notable GIM research projects include:
Clinician investigators and research staff in the Section of General Internal Medicine recently co-authored "A Scoping Review of Youth Overdose Preventions," published online ahead of print last month in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. Moriah Wiggins, BS, Avik Chatterjee, MD, MPH, and Sarah Bagley, MD, MSc, conducted this scoping review in collaboration with investigators from the […]
This week, The New England Journal of Medicine published the perspective piece "Facing Political Attacks on Medical Education — The Future of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Medicine." Dr. Carl Streed, an Associate Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine, is senior author of this article, which comments on how the deluge of legislative […]
The article "Racism, not race: Quantitative analysis of the use of race and racism in the addiction literature" was recently published in Social Science & Medicine. The study was led by former Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine student Spencer Dunleavy, MD, who is currently a resident at the University of Pennsylvania in […]