Eftitan Akam MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-5951eyakam@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Biography
Dr. Eftitan (Efi) Akam is an internist/pediatrician and aspiring public health practitioner. Her professional interests are in the intersection of health equity, climate change, and environmental justice. Dr. Akam’s focus is understanding mitigating the impacts of climate change in chronic medical conditions within historically marginalized communities.
In addition to the above, Dr. Akam is passionate about outreach and advocacy. She is the co-founder of Melanated and Dedicated (MaD) Scientist, an outreach program to foster STEM identities in historically under-represented children.
Dr. Akam received her BA from Harvard College, her MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and her MPH from Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her Med-Peds residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident. in 2023, Dr. Akam completed a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University. Dr. Akam will be joining Boston University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Boston Medical Center as a Med-Peds hospitalist.
Outside of the hospital, Dr. Akam loves to bike, camp, read, and paint.
Education
MD, Vanderbilt University
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Neuroscience/Neurology, BA, Harvard College
Publications
Akam EY, Nuako AA, Daniel AK, Stanford FC. Racial Disparities and Cardiometabolic Risk: New Horizons of Intervention and Prevention. Curr Diab Rep. 2022 Mar; 22(3):129-136. PMID: 35175453.
Published on 5/24/2021Knight MG, Anekwe C, Washington K, Akam EY, Wang E, Stanford FC. Weight regulation in menopause. Menopause. 2021 May 24; 28(8):960-965. PMID: 34033603.
Published on 4/21/2021Malhotra S, Czepiel KS, Akam EY, Shaw AY, Sivasubramanian R, Seetharaman S, Stanford FC. Bariatric surgery in the treatment of adolescent obesity: current perspectives in the United States. Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2021 May; 16(3):123-134. PMID: 33879013.
Published on 1/1/2020Akam EY & Amponsah D. The Massachusetts General Hospital Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Manual. Knobology. 2020; 1-6.
Published on 8/6/2019Barnard ME, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Milne GL, Akam EY, Chan AT, Eliassen AH, Rosner BA, Shu XO, Terry KL, Xiang YB, Zheng W, Tworoger SS. Urinary PGE-M Levels and Risk of Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 11; 28(11):1845-1852. PMID: 31387969.
Published on 1/1/2019Akam EY. Anemia and Pancytopenia. Lumis M, Sharma S, editors. The Massachusetts General Hospital Housestaff Manual. 2019; 125-126.
Published on 1/1/2019Akam EY. Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Lumis M, Sharma S, editors. The Massachusetts General Hospital Housestaff Manual. 2019; 106.
Published on 1/1/2019Akam EY. Health Screening and Maintenance. The Massachusetts General Hospital Housestaff Manual. 2019; 200-201.
Published on 1/1/2019Akam EY. Thrombocytopenia. The Massachusetts General Hospital Housestaff Manual. 2019; 127.
Published on 1/1/2019Akam EY. Urinary Tract Infections. The Massachusetts General Hospital Housestaff Manual. 2019; 109.