DoM Faculty Appointments and Promotions – June 2024
Congratulations to the following Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent promotion.
Associate Professor
Nhan Do, MD, MS, Medicine, specializes in medical bioinformatics focused on effective development and delivery of knowledge tools in the clinical and research workflow. He is the director of the Boston VA Cooperative Studies Program Informatics Center, and he has been instrumental in developing the infrastructure to support research under a learning health system framework, including a large data repository, knowledge repository and software applications to deliver actionable knowledge. One of the informatics center’s projects focuses on improving the efficiency of and facilitating the screening and enrollment of veterans into clinical trials for investigators locally at VA Boston Healthcare System as well as nationally. Prior to joining BU and VA Boston, Dr. Do led the first personal health record for the military and the first health information exchange between the military and its civilian partners at a time when healthcare organizations were reluctant to share data outside of their boundaries. Dr. Do was also the first chief medical information officer to serve on the battlefield to evaluate the health outcomes of military tactics.
Sarah Kimball, MD, Medicine/GIM, specializes in immigration-informed medical care, where she has helped to research and build health systems that are responsive to the needs of immigrant patients. She is the director of the Immigrant & Refugee Health Center at Boston Medical Center, a comprehensive medical home that addresses the barriers that immigrants face to being holistically healthy. Her studies of the critical health care needs of immigrant and refugee health populations have influenced national best practices. For her work in this field, she is known as a national expert in immigrant and refugee health, serving on the board of directors of the Society for Refugee Health Providers and as an associate editor for the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. In addition, Dr. Kimball has designed and taught a year-long curriculum for general internal medicine residents focusing on care for immigrant and refugee patients, for which she won a teaching award from the GIM residency office in 2022.