Sarah L. Kimball MD
Assistant 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, and serves at the co-Chair of the Research, Evaluation and Ethics Committee.
Websites
Boston Medical Center Provider Profile
Immigrant & Refugee Health Center Twitter Account
Education
Medicine-Internal, MD, Harvard Medical School, 2011
Biology, BSc, Brown University, 2005
Publications
Sarah L Kimball , Houda Chergui , Haniya Saleem Syeda , Salma Amin , Mara Eyllon. Immigration-related Legal Collaboration in Primary Care: Evaluating Impact on Knowledge and Well-being. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2023; 34(1):246-262.
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. 2022 Dec 31; 1-7. 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.
Published on 1/31/2022DeFries T, Kelley J, Martin M, Kimball SL. Immigration status matters: the intersectional risk of immigration vulnerability and substance use disorder. Addiction. 2022 Jul; 117(7):1827-1829. PMID: 35102631.
Published on 12/1/2021Kimball SL, Levy MM. Sepsis and the Opioid Crisis: Integrating Treatment for Two Public Health Emergencies. Crit Care Med. 2021 12 01; 49(12):2151-2153. PMID: 34793384.
Published on 9/21/2021Zhang M, Gurung A, Anglewicz P, Subedi P, Payton C, 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. Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Refugees in the United States. Public Health Rep. 2021 Nov-Dec; 136(6):774-781. PMID: 34546812.
Published on 9/19/2021Payton C, Kumar GS, Kimball S, Clarke SK, AlMasri I, Karaki FM. A Logic Model Framework for Planning an International Refugee Health Research, Evaluation, and Ethics Committee. Health Promot Pract. 2022 Sep; 23(5):852-860. PMID: 34541906.
Published on 3/11/2021Saadi A, Anand P, Kimball SL. Traumatic brain injury and forensic evaluations: Three case studies of U.S. asylum-seekers. J Forensic Leg Med. 2021 Apr; 79:102139. PMID: 33740607.
Media Mentions
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
Published on 10/28/2020
Black Hispanics Have Highest COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Mortality Rates
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