{"id":3842,"date":"2026-04-08T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:49:52","slug":"former-nimhd-director-speaks-on-disparities-in-patient-clinician-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/2026\/04\/08\/former-nimhd-director-speaks-on-disparities-in-patient-clinician-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NIMHD Director Speaks on Disparities in Patient-Clinician Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01100-e1775661647606-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3843 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01100-e1775661647606-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01100-e1775661647606-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01100-e1775661647606-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01100-e1775661647606-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01100-e1775661647606-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucsf.edu\/eliseo.perez-stable\">Eliseo J. P\u00e9rez-Stable, MD<\/a> &#8212; the former director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimhd.nih.gov\/\">National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities<\/a> &#8212; 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. P\u00e9rez-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.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Dr. P\u00e9rez-Stable also presented &#8220;Health Disparities Science and Medical Care&#8221; for the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01105-e1775661519547-645x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"421\" class=\"wp-image-3844 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01105-e1775661519547-645x300.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01105-e1775661519547-1024x476.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01105-e1775661519547-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01105-e1775661519547-1536x714.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/04\/DSC01105-e1775661519547-2048x952.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliseo J. P\u00e9rez-Stable, MD &#8212; the former director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities &#8212; 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. P\u00e9rez-Stable shared his expertise on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23454,"featured_media":3844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1320],"tags":[1406,1404,1405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}