Sarah L. Kimball MD
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-5951sarah.kimball@bmc.org
sarkimba@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Biography
Sarah Kimball, MD is a board-certified internist and is an Assistant Professor at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She completed her medical school training at Harvard University Medical School and did residency training in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Residency Program in Primary Care and Population Medicine. She joined the faculty at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine in 2014.
Dr. Kimball has a expertise in immigration-informed medical care, where she has helped to research and build health systems that are responsive to the needs of im/migrant patients. She is currently the Director of the Immigrant & Refugee Health Center (IRHC) at Boston Medical Center, a comprehensive medical home that addresses the barriers that immigrants face to being holistically healthy. She has served previously as the Medical Director of the Boston Accountable Care Organization (BACO) Complex Care Management (CCM) program at Boston Medical Center. In addition to a love of primary care, Dr. Kimball's main interest is in teaching social justice and advocacy skills. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, with an expertise in Health Services Research. She was a founding member of the Society of Refugee Health Providers (SRHP), and serves as the Treasurer of the Board of the SRHP.
Websites
Boston Medical Center Provider Profile
Immigrant & Refugee Health Center Twitter Account
Education
Medicine-Internal, MD, Harvard Medical School
Biology, BSc, Brown University
Publications
Kogan M, Kimball SL, Purrington K, Cedor J, Siddiqi OK. Undocumented immigrants and advanced heart failure therapies. JHLT Open. 2025 Feb; 7:100207. PMID: 40144825.
Published on 10/14/2024De La Hoz A, Gadi N, Lopez CG, Barrera-Godinez A, Miller NS, Bourque DL, Brem C, Ozluk E, Seth G, Kimball S, Taylor JL. Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in a Patient With Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and HIV: A Diagnostic Challenge for Clinicians Caring for a Migrant Population in the United States. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Oct; 11(10):ofae587. PMID: 39474451.
Published on 1/1/2024Taknint JT, Marzoughi M, Gellatly R, Krengel MH, Kimball SL. Improving Access to Disability Assessment for US Citizenship Applicants in Primary Care: An Embedded Neuropsychological Assessment Innovation. Ann Fam Med. 2024; 22(5):458. PMID: 39313347.
Published on 11/4/2023Saadi A, Marzoughi M, Kimball SL. Guiding Principles for Writing About Immigrants and Immigrant Health. J Immigr Minor Health. 2024 Feb; 26(1):253-256. PMID: 37924437.
Published on 8/26/2023Streed CG, Knight K, Kimball SL. Sexual and Gender Minority Refugees - Preparing Clinicians for the International Anti-LGBTQI+ Crisis. N Engl J Med. 2023 Aug 31; 389(9):778-781. PMID: 37632467.
Published on 1/1/2023Kimball SL, Chergui H, Syeda HS, Amin S, Eyllon M. Immigration-related Legal Collaboration in Primary Care: Evaluating Impact on Knowledge and Well-being. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2023; 34(1):246-262. PMID: 37464492.
Published on 12/31/2022Zhang M, Payton C, Gurung A, Anglewicz P, Subedi P, Ali A, Ibrahim A, Haider M, Hamidi N, Atem J, Thang J, Wang S, Kim C, Kimball SL, Karaki F, Nazhat N, Abouagila M, Yun K. COVID-19 Infection and Contact Tracing Among Refugees in the United States, 2020-2021. J Immigr Minor Health. 2023 Dec; 25(6):1239-1245. PMID: 36586088.
Published on 5/27/2022Jirmanus LZ, Ranker L, Touw S, Mahmood R, Kimball SL, Hanchate A, Lasser KE. Impact of United States 2017 Immigration Policy changes on missed appointments at two Massachusetts Safety-Net Hospitals. J Immigr Minor Health. 2022 Aug; 24(4):807-818. PMID: 35624394.
Published on 5/20/2022McCuistian C, Kimball SL, Buitron de la Vega P, Godfrey LB, Fortuna LR, Valentine SE. Consideration of racism experiences in the implementation of trauma-focused therapy in primary care. Health Serv Res. 2022 Dec; 57 Suppl 2:235-248. PMID: 35521941.
Published on 4/27/2022Kimball SL, Syeda HS, Chergui H, Piwowarczyk LA, Gould J. Embedding Chaplaincy Services in Primary Care for Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Boston Pilot Intervention. J Relig Health. 2023 Feb; 62(1):55-64. PMID: 35474032.
Media Mentions
Published on 6/22/2023
Health care leaders talk challenges, successes from Martha's Vineyard migrant response
Published on 5/19/2022
What is Spiritual Distress? Once Identified, Chaplaincy Could Be a Bridge to Mental Health Treatment
Published on 5/5/2022
Published on 4/29/2022
First Afghans. Now Ukrainians. BMC Immigrant & Refugee Health Center Gets Ready to Help Again
Published on 2/3/2022
New center for immigrant health opening in memory of beloved local doctor
Published on 9/15/2021
BMC Immigrant & Refugee Health Center Prepares to Welcome Afghans
Published on 11/9/2020
5 Executive Actions for Immigrant Rights the Biden-Harris Administration Should Take on Day One
Published on 11/9/2020
Published on 11/9/2020
COVID-19 Proves Especially Fatal to Aging African Americans
Published on 11/2/2020
Black Hispanics at Especially High Risk for Severe COVID
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