Alexis Gallardo Foreman DNP, MSN, FNP-BC
Assistant Professor, Medicine
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 358-1450agforema@bu.edu

Centers
Pulmonary Center
Biography
Dr. Alexis Gallardo Foreman is a Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor of Pulmonology, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine at Boston Medical Center/Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. Her work has focused on hospital-wide efforts focused on reducing readmissions of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) through the creation of educational resources for inhaler teaching and nicotine replacement therapies for patients at the bedside and post-discharge. A member of the Pulmonary Sleep team, she collaborates with Dr. Eric Heckman, to help treat patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure and other sleep disordered breathing. She is also a trained Tobacco Cessation Specialist and co-Director of the Tobacco Treatment Program, a hospital-wide program that provides bedside and outpatient smoking cessation counseling with the mission of addressing disparities in lung cancer screening.
Dr. Gallardo Foreman recently obtained her Doctorate in Nursing with her scholarly practice project focused on creating a culturally sensitive survey to assess a patient with long COVID and their interest in participating in an in-person or online Pulmonary Rehabilitation program. She received her Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate Nursing degrees from Regis College. She also holds a Master's in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University and has a background in writing training programs to promote cultural awareness among healthcare providers. She is a member of the Boston University Medical Group and Pulmonary Department’s Diversity and Inclusion committees and an active member of the Advanced Practice Providers Department of Medicine workgroup. She is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and a member of the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners.
Education
Nursing, MSN, Regis College
International Affairs, MA, Lesley University
Nursing, BS, Regis College
Health Administration, BA, Bethany College
Publications
Flores A, Wiener RS, Hon S, Wakeman C, Howard J, Virani N, Mattus B, Foreman AG, Singh J, Rosen L, Bulekova K, Kathuria H. Sustainability of an Opt-Out Electronic-Health Record-Based Tobacco Treatment Consult Service at a Large Safety-Net Hospital: A 6-Year Analysis. Nicotine Tob Res. 2024 Jul 22; 26(8):1081-1088. PMID: 38320328.
Published on 5/29/2023Shusterman S, Villarreal-Calderon R, Gunawan A, Gallardo Foreman A, O'Donnell C, Wakeman C, Javeed H, Keteyian J, Howard J, Bulekova K, de Silva S, Campbell T, Lasser K, Kathuria H. A Financial Incentives Program to Promote Smoking Cessation Among Recently Hospitalized Individuals: Feasibility and Acceptability Study. JMIR Form Res. 2023 May 29; 7:e44979. PMID: 37247216.
Published on 8/23/2022Kathuria H, Gunawan A, Spring M, Aijaz S, Cobb V, Fitzgerald C, Wakeman C, Howard J, Clancy M, Foreman AG, Truong V, Wong C, Steiling K, Lasser KE, Bulekova K, Wiener RS. Hospitalization as an opportunity to engage underserved individuals in shared decision-making for lung cancer screening: results from two randomized pilot trials. Cancer Causes Control. 2022 Nov; 33(11):1373-1380. PMID: 35997854.
Published on 3/1/2022Kearney L, Wiener RS, Dahodwala M, Fix GM, Hicks J, Little F, Howard J, Foreman AG, Wakeman C, O'Donnell C, Bulekova K, Drainoni ML, Kathuria H. A mixed methods study to inform and evaluate a longitudinal nurse practitioner/community health worker intervention to address social determinants of health and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease self-management. BMC Pulm Med. 2022 Mar 01; 22(1):74. PMID: 35232414.