Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, Chief

Section of General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Boston Medical Center  People

 Programs

 Events

 Accomplishments

 Debra Paarz – Administrator  Sarah Brunt – Faculty Support Coordinator  Veronica Forde – GIM Fellowship Coordinator  Amy Le – NEW Grants Manager  April Leon – Grants Manager  Lisa Morin – Executive Assistant  Jenay Nasif – Admin Assistant  Lorraine Williams – NEW Admin Assistant

 5 PC Clin Educators  3 Hospitalist Clin Educators  1 Nurse Practitioner  2 Investigators  Daniel Cottrell, MD • Medical School: George Washington Univ. School of Med and Health Sciences • Residency: Hospital of the Univ. of Penn, 2009

 Jenny Siegel, MD • Medical School: Harvard Medical School • Residency: Univ. of Calif, San Francisco, 2010 • Chief Residency: San Francisco General Hospital, 2011

 Marshall Fleurant, MD • Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine • Residency: Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hospital, 2009 • Fellowship: Harvard School of Public Health, 2011

 Priya Joshi, MD • Medical School: Chicago Medical School • Residency: Boston Medical Center, 2011

 Lily Somwaru-Ackermann, MD • Medical School: George Washington Univ. School of Medicine • Residency: Hospital of the Univ. of Penn, 2009 • Fellowship: Hospital of the Univ. of Penn, 2010

 Jacob Feldman, MD • Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine • Residency: Boston Medical Center, 2011

 Ethan Bortniker, MD • Medical School: Boston Univ. School of Medicine • Residency: Boston Medical Center, 2011

 James Hudspeth, MD • Medical School: Washington Univ. School of Medicine • Residency: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, 2011

 Irina Dauphinee, NP • Regis College

 Amy Linsky, MD, MSc • Medical School: Robert Wood Johnson Med. School • Residency: Univ. of Pennsylvania • Fellowship: GIM, BUSM, 2011

 Lisa Quintiliani, PhD • PhD: Univ. of North Carolina School of Public Health • Fellowship: Harvard School of Public Health • Fellowship: Medical Informatics, BUSM

 5 PC Clin Educators  4 Hospitalist Clin Educators  3 Nurse Practitioners  1 Physician’s Assistant  1 Investigator  Christine Pace, MD • Medical School: Harvard Medical School • Residency: Brigham & Women’s Hospital, 2010 • Fellowship: GIM, BUSM 2012

 Jennifer Gutierrez McCarty, MD • Medical School: Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine • Residency: Duke University, 2012

 Lisa Skowronek, MD • Medical School: Albany Medical College • Residency: Lahey Clinic Med Ctr, Burlington, MA, 2006

 Khelda Jabbar, MD • Medical School: Al-Mustansiria College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq • Residency: Family Medicine, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO, 2001-2004 • Residency: Preventive Medicine, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO, 2006-2008 • Fellowship: Women’s Health, BMC, 2008

 Azadeh Nasseh, MD • Medical School: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran • Residency: Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, 2009 • Fellowship: Preventive Medicine Residency, BMC, 2011

 Janelle Baptiste, MD • Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine • Residency: Boston Medical Center, 2012

 Patrick Fleming, MD • Medical School: Columbia Univ. College of Physicians and Surgeons • Residency: Boston Medical Center, 2012

 Fausto Ortiz, MD • Medical School: Harvard Medical School • Residency: Boston Medical Center, 2012

 Jaymin Patel, MD • Medical School: New Jersey Medical School • Residency: Boston Medical Center, 2011 • Chief Resident: Boston Medical Center, 2012 • Nocturnist

 Julia Matthews, RN, MSN, MPH • MGH Institute of Health Professions

 Jayne Dorfman, PA-C • Hahnemann University

 Dana Mars, RN, NP • Boston College

 Sandra Urban-Lynch, RNP • Hahnemann University  Karsten Lunze, MD, MPH • Medical School: Charite Medical School, Germany • Residency: Johns Hopkins • Fellowship: PM, BUSM, 2011 and Addiction Medicine, BUSM, 2012

PC Clin Educators Hospitalists  Michele David, MD, MBA, MPH  Ethan Bortniker, MD  Andrea Kronman, MD, MSc  Suparna Dutta, MD  Kate Lupton, MD  Nila Radhakrishnan, MD  Mitch Medow, MD, PhD  Charlene Weigel, MD

 Subha Ramani, MD  Lily Somwaru-Ackermann, MD Other  Anita Ung, MD  Hernan Lopez-Morra, MD  Michael Stillman, MD Clin Investigator  Betsy Walsh, NP  Jan Fleischman, NP  Karen Freund, MD, MPH

 Daniel Alford, MD, MPH  Christine Pace, MD

 Laura Wung, MD  Tara Dumont, MD

 Jason Worcester, MD Acting Director of Primary Care

 Phyllis Carr, MD • Associate Dean for Student Affairs  Robert Witzburg, MD • Associate Dean for Admissions  Daniel Alford, MD, MPH • Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education  Daniel Chen, MD, MSc • Assistant Dean for Student Affairs  Angela Jackson, MD • Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs  Suzanne Sarfaty, MD • Assistant Dean for Student Affairs  Shapiro 5 & 6  Pre Procedure Clinic (PPC) • Gertha Dabady, NP • Jean Delva, NP • Irina Dauphinee, NP • Patricia Flanagan, NP • Jayne Dorfman, PA-C • Meeky Kim, NP • Cleo Ferrao, NP • Dana Mars, NP • Eunice MacAllister, RNC • Fabienne Paul-Blanc, NP • Julia Matthews, NP • Yolanda Perez-Shulman, NP • Sue Morrissey, NP • Sandy Urban-Lynch, NP • Xiuhuan Yan, NP  Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH • Chief

 Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH • Associate Chief for Faculty Development

 Peter Davidson, MD • Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs

Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Ambulatory Care Center 250,000 189,691 198,411 200,627 200,000 190,190 160,533 150,000 96,392 100,000

50,000

0 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12

Total

63,510 85,088 97,742 113,167 111,198 112,237*

Includes YACC, DOB, WHG, CMG and now merged practice at Shapiro * Also includes PPC (aka IMPAC) data – without PPC = 105,712 65% of inpatient

medicine blocks GIM (hospitalist) GIM (non- are covered by 28% hospitalist) GIM* 35% Other 37%

*not including the Units and subspecialty services  Behavioral Medicine Programs • HTN Management • Smoking Cessation • Chronic Pain • Individual Counseling  Hepatitis C Treatment Program  Injection Clinic  Diabetes Management  Outpatient-Based Opioid Treatment Program (OBOT)  Psychiatry Preceptor Resource for Residents  GI Program (in Women’s Health Group)  Clinical Pharmacy Program  Refugee Health Clinic

Primary care clinic sessions at BMC in which BUSM students are precepted Academic Year # Clinic Sessions % Change (prior year) 2002 – 2003 700 -- 2003 – 2004 750 +7 2004 – 2005 640 -14 2005 – 2006 482 -25 2006 – 2007 399 -17 2007 – 2008 502 +25 2008 – 2009 410 -18 2009 – 2010 589 +43 2010 – 2011 844 +43 2011 – 2012 663 -22% 43% Sub-specialties GIM 57%  Battaglia  Lasser  Berz  Lee  Bortniker  Liebschutz  Chapman, C  MacAllister  Chen  Patch  Cottrell  Rao  Dedier  Siegel  Feldman  Somwaru-Ackerman  Hudspeth  Stillman  Krishnamurthy  Worcester

*Introduction to Clinical Medicine

 Jonathan Berz, MD, MSc  Vasken Kroshian, MD

 Dan Cottrell, MD  Jenny Siegel, MD

 Jake Feldman, MD

 Jason Worcester, MD

 James Hudspeth, MD

* Introduction to Clinical Medicine

 Thomas Barber, MD The Ambulatory Internal Medicine clerkship offers an Evidence Based Medicine seminar in which students work in pairs to formulate a clinical question, perform a literature search  Warren Hershman, MD, MPH and co-present a "critically appraised topic" (CAT) to their peers and to a clinician- educator faculty member. The faculty member facilitates a discussion of the  Suzanne Sarfaty, MD applicability of the CAT findings to the care of patients.

*Evidence Based Medicine

 Thomas Barber, MD  Warren Hershman, MD, MPH  Suzanne Sarfaty, MD  Barber  Lee  Caslowitz  Noronha  Hershman  Radhakrishnan  Hughes  Ramani  Hylek  Samet  Jackson  Witzburg

 GIM pre-operative medicine service

 Director: Peter Davidson, MD  Associate Director: Alok Kapoor, MD, MSc

 Faculty: • Melissa DiPetrillo, MD • Peter Davidson, MD • Craig Noronha, MD • Teresa Cheng, MD • Jonathan Berz, MD • Mitch Medow, MD

 Craig Noronha, MD, Associate Program Director

 Catherine Rich, MD, Associate Program Director, Primary Care Training Program

 PGY 1 – Myfanwy Callahan, Kim Chiang, Pooja Raval, Jennifer Russo, Mayanka Tickoo

 PGY 2 – Matthew Corey, Ricardo Cruz, Jessica Hurst, Shane Magee, Zoe Weinstein

 PGY 3 – Anitha Bhat, Lydia Efird, Tiffany Groover, Irene Rahman, Swati Shroff

 Robert Witzburg, MD, Assoc. Dean  Susan Phillips, MD  Christine Phillips, MD  Nila Radhakrishnan, MD  Lars Reinhold, MD

 ID Clinic  International Clinic  Anticoagulation & Thrombosis Service  McInnis Group/Woods Mullen Shelter  Frontage Road Methadone Program  Transitional Opioid Program (TOP)  Belkin Breast Health Center (Moakley)

 Alex Walley, MD, MSc, Medical Director Frontage Road Methadone Program, BPHC

 Sheila Chapman, MD, Physician Frontage Road Methadone Program

 Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH, Medical Director, BPHC, Addictions Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Support Services

 GIM Grand Rounds* Bernie Kreger, MD, MPH • Ambulatory Morbidity and Mortality Conference‡ Julie Crosson, MD  Research in Progress (RiP)† Judy Tsui, MD, MPH & Devin Mann, MD, MSc  MISU Conference‡ Julien Dedier, MD, MPH  CARE Unit Journal Club‡ Rich Saitz, MD, MPH  Health Disparities Grand Rounds Karen Lasser, MD, MPH

* weekly †biweekly ‡monthly quarterly  9.21.11 – Gone But Not Forgotten: Transitions in Primary Care presented by Lily Somwaru-Ackermann, MD & Raj Krishnamurthy, MD  10.19.11 – To Order or Not to Order? Jason Worcester, MD & Julie Crosson, MD  11.16.11 – Case of 53YO Man on Simvastatin 80mg. What Do I Really Need to Worry About? What Are the Options? Craig Noronha, MD, Julie Crosson, MD & Justin Saulino, PharmD  12.21.11 – Iatrogenesis, Iatrogenesis, Iatrogenesis Mike Stillman, MD, Carol Sulis, MD & Julie Crosson, MD

 1.18.12 – A Case-based Discussion on Disability Evaluation [and Forms] in Primary Care Karen Lasser, MD, John Burress, MD, Julie Crosson, MD & Robert Sokolove, PhD  2.15.12 – Case of Patient with Fibromyalgia and Narcotics Gertha Dabady, NP, Michael York, MD, Dan Alford, MD, Robert Sokolove, PhD & Julie Crosson, MD  4.25.12 – “Joe’s Story” Mike Stillman, MD, Jennifer Hughes, MD & Julie Crosson, MD  5.16.12 – “One Day in Roslindale…” Peggy Chou, MD, Mark Sloan, MD & Julie Crosson, MD  6.20.12 – “He Can’t Remember” Melissa DiPetrillo, MD, Anil Nair, MD & Julie Crosson, MD

Julie Crosson, MD & Tom Barber, MD Elaine Hylek, MD, MPH Talking to Patients after a Medical Error: Novel Anticoagulants for the What to Do? What to Say? Treatment & Prevention of (Jan 6th, 2012) Thrombotic Disorders (Apr 6th, 2012)

 Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH – Director

 Joanne Wilkinson, MD, MSc – Director, FM Fellowship

 Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MPH – Associate Director, GIM Fellowship

 Angela Jackson, MD – Associate Director for Education, GIM/FM Fellowship

 Jeffrey Markuns, MD, MEd – Associate Director for Education, GIM/FM Fellowship

 Jonathan Berz, MD, MSc – Associate Director, PM Residency

 Robert Friedman, MD – Director, Emeritus

 Daniel Ambrus, MD • Residency: Internal Medicine (IM), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center  Sarah Bagley, MD • Residency: Med/Peds, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital  Laila Khalid, MD • Residency: IM, Mt. Auburn Hospital  Cara Poland, MD • Residency: IM, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI  Ambili Ramachandran, MD • Residency: IM, Emory University School of Medicine  Zayd Razouki, MD • Residency: IM, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT  Shivani Reddy, MD • Residency: IM, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital  Ramon Cancino, MD • Residency: Family Med, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education

2nd Year:  Marjory Charlot, MD • Residency: IM, BUSM  Loretta Berger, MD • Residency: IM, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL  Elizabeth Karwowski, MD • Residency: IM, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI  Shwetha Sequiera, MD • Residency: IM, University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas, TX  Christine Pace, MD • Clinician Educator, Boston Medical Center & BUSM  Karsten Lunze, MD, MPH • Clinician Investigator, Boston Medical Center & BUSM  Nicole LaRue, MD • Dedham Primary Care Associates, Dedham, MA  Kasia Budzynska, MD • Henry Ford Hospital, Family Medicine Residency Program, Detroit, MI

 Medical Information  Health/Care Disparities Systems Unit (MISU) Research Unit

 Clinical Addiction  Hospital Medicine Research & Education Unit (HMU) (CARE) Unit

 Community  Women’s Health Unit Medicine Unit (CMU) (WHU)

 Eligibility • 7-8 sessions in primary care • Maintain clinical threshold target

 Activity • 4 week block with academic project pre-defined and clinical work decreased to 2 sessions/week

Clinical: RVU and FTE-based

Research: indirect costs-based  Pursue Bridge to Excellence transformation of Primary Care practice to move towards a functioning Patient Centered Medical Home D  B2E

 PCMH B+

 Stabilize and restore Women’s Health Unit clinical activities A-

 Achieve challenging wRVU expectations for both individual and the collective GIM clinical faculty A-  Elevate the residents’ educational experience in the Primary Care 3 + 1 ambulatory education training scheme A

 Obtain academic promotion for 10% of GIM eligible faculty A

 Recruit outstanding new leadership for the Director of A the Hospital Medicine Unit

 Recruit outstanding new leadership for the Director of Primary Care B

 Retain existing outstanding GIM faculty C

 Continue success with research funding and publications in all realms of GIM research A-

 Maintain and enhance excellence with GIM Grand Rounds and Research-in-Progress conferences A

 Attract excellent physicians to GIM Fellowship who will A become future GIM academic faculty

 Obtain Medical Home official certification for activities in Shapiro Primary Care

 Meet the new panel size expectations to improve access to Primary Care

 Achieve collective wRVU expectations for GIM clinical faculty

 Obtain academic promotion for 10% of GIM eligible faculty

 Recruit outstanding new leadership for the Director of Primary Care

 Retain existing outstanding GIM faculty

 Continue success with research funding and publications in all realms of GIM research

 Maintain and enhance excellence with GIM Grand Rounds and Research-in-Progress conferences

 Attract excellent physicians to GIM Fellowship who will become future GIM academic faculty

H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine & Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Co-Director, VA Outcomes Group

SGIM Grand Rounds Two Misleading Statistics: Relative Change & Survival Medical Grand Rounds Over-diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health Endicott Estate, Dedham Orlando, FL

Faculty:  Dan Alford  Angela Jackson  Azadeh Nasseh  Tracy Battaglia  Nancy Kressin  Michael Paasche-Orlow  Jonathan Berz  Andrea Kronman  Adam Rose (VA)  Teresa Cheng  Karen Lasser  Rich Saitz  Peter Davidson  Jane Liebschutz  Jeffrey Samet  Megan Gerber (VA)  Amy Linsky (VA)  Jenny Siegel  Allen Gifford (VA)  Devin Mann  Alex Walley

Fellows:  Daniel Fuster  Nicole LaRue  Shwetha Sequeira  Elizabeth Karwowski

Residents (John Noble Scholars):

 Rebecca Grochow  Julie Fu  May Saung  Meaghan Crowley

Sat, May 7th at the Seaport World Trade Center

16,000,000 $14,366,537 $13,435,556 $13,182,475 $13,430,002 14,000,000 $12,804,764

12,000,000 $10,785,625 10,000,000 8,000,000 6,000,000 4,000,000 2,000,000 - FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12

FY12 Total Direct & Indirect Research & Training Grant Awards: $17,016,776 Number of Direct / Indirect Fiscal Year Awards Dollars

FY09 20 $7,332,510

FY10 35 $12,150,594

FY11 36 $19,613,220

FY12 18 $12,596,484 $80,000,000 $76,140,520 $70,427,284 $72,136,345 $70,000,000 $64,264,260 $60,000,000 $48,964,697 $50,000,000 $47,558,036 $40,000,000 $32,196,253 $30,000,000 $20,000,000 $10,000,000 $0 FY05 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12

*Includes Direct and Indirect Costs $12,000,000 $10,750,791 $10,000,000 $9,849,566 $8,360,717 $7,842,058 $7,291,806 $8,000,000 $6,142,010 $5,788,519 $6,000,000

$4,000,000

$2,000,000

$0 FY05 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12

*Includes Direct and Indirect Costs  Kapoor: • Gemsstar, Older Adult Safety in Surgery (OASIS); $25,000; 8/11-7/13 • Gemsstar, ;$25,000;8/11-7/12

 Naimi: • CMS, MGH, Social & Health Effects of Changes in Alcohol Prices; $267,708; 9/11-8/13

 Hanchate: • AHRQ, Statistical Evaluation of Measures for Reporting Hospital Outcome Performance; $98,703; 7/11-6/12

 LaBelle: • DPH; OBOT, Technical Assistance; $1,600,000; 7/11-6/14; • DPH; OBOT, TA and Training; $943,655; 7/11-6/14

 Alford: • NIAAA, SUNY, Transitioning Addiction Research into Clinical Practice Model: Addiction Medicine RTP; $65,500; 9/11-8/13

 Lasser: • Rx Foundation; Effects of MA Healthcare Reform on Access to Care & Disparities; $380,538; 11/11-10/13

 Liebschutz: • HRSA, Faculty Development in Primary Care; $2,000,000; 7/11-6/16 • HRSA, BU Residency Program; $1,100,000; 9/11-9/16

 Paasche-Orlow: • CMS, MGH, Using Video to Facilitate Care Planning in Patients with Heart Failure; $322,509; 12/11-6/16

 Rourke: • Pfizer, Financial Incentives for Medication Adherence; $66,750; 12/11-12/12 • NIAAA, NBER, Financial Incentives for Medication Adherence; $44,678; 9/11-8/12

 Battaglia: • AVON, Avon Breast Health Initiative; $200,000; 7/11-6/12 • NCI, NSABP, National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project; $5,776; 2/12-5/12 • NCI, BMC, Navigation in the Safety Net, Community Health Educator; $49,241; 9/11-5/12 • NCI, BMC, Navigation in the Safety Net, HIV; $103,270; 9/11-5/12  Saitz: • NIAAA, Addressing Alcohol/HIV Consequences in Substance Dependence; $2,791,192; 9/11-8/16 • SAMHSA, MITRE Corp, Validation of Self-Administered Single-Item Screening Question for Drug Use; $140,000; 4/12-9/12

 Samet: • NIDA, Advancing Clinical Research Training within Addiction Residency Programs; $2,706,741; 4/12-3/17 • NIDA, Linking Russian Narcology & HIV Care to Enhance Treatment, Retention & Outcomes; $3,458,918; 7/11-4/16 • NIDA, SUNY, Transitioning Addiction Research into Clinical Practice; $54,178; 9/11-8/13 • NIDA, INVEST Fellowship; $44,000; 7/11-6/12 • NIAAA, Urban ARCH Consortium; $1,179,452; 9/11-8/16 • NIAAA, Russian ARCH Cohort; $662,312; 9/11-8/16

130 118 120 109 110 103 100 92 90 80 72 70 58 60 46 50 40 31 30 24 20 10 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011  Alford  Freund  Medow  Battaglia  Gifford  Murabito  Berger  Hanchate  Naimi  Berlowitz  Hermos  Orlander  Berz  Hylek  Paasche-Orlow  Borzecki  Kalish  Phillips, Christine  Cheng, Debbie  Kim  Rose  Crosby  Kressin  Saitz  D‘Amore  Kronman  Samet  David  LaBelle  Shanahan  Davidson  Lasser  Sherman  Farzanfar  Liebschutz  Somwaru-Ackermann  Fleurant  Linsky  Tsui  Friedman  Lunze  Walley

 Karsten Lunze, MD, MPH • Don Gemson Resident Award, American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)

 Alex Walley, MD, MSc • Robert Dawson Evans Junior Faculty Mentor Award, BUSM

 Tara Dumont, MD • Medical Campus Emerging Leaders Forum, BUSM

 Jason Worcester, MD • Citizenship Award, DOM

 Peter Smith, MD • Housestaff Teacher of the Year Award for Community Based Physicians, DOM

 Anand Kartha, MD • Robert Dawson Evans Faculty Special Recognition Teaching Award, DOM

 Dan Alford, MD, MPH • Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Inductee, BUSM

 Colleen LaBelle, RN • 2012 Science and Service Award for Office-Based Opioid Treatment (SAMHSA) • 2011 Management Award, International Nurses Society on Addictions • 2011 Chapter of the Year Award, International Nurses Society on Addictions • 2011 Innovations in Behavioral Health Services for STATE OBOT, Iaward Niatx

 Jane Liebschutz, MD • 2012 Community Clinician of the Year for Suffolk District , Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS)

 Rich Saitz, MD • W. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Excellence in Mentorship Award, Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) • 2012 Distinguished Research Award, Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) • Appointed Chair to NIH study section

 Felicia Patch, MD • $3,600 to attend Academic Hospitalist Academy  Amresh Hanchate, PhD • $3,698 to attend American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Program  Amy Linsky, MD • $2,682 - Fieldwork Seminar in Qualitative Methods  Tom Barber, MD • $1,975 to attend IHI’s Building a Clinician Peer Support Program

 Marshall Fleurant, MD • Sam Putnam Award for Training to Enhance Patient- Doctor Communication

 Peter Smith, MD • Witzburg Award for Outstanding Ambulatory Medical Education

 Associate Professor  Professor: • Tracy Battaglia, MD • Elaine Hylek, MD, MPH • James Meisel, MD  Assistant Professor: • Ethan Bortniker, MD  Adjunct Associate Professor • Peggy Chou, MD • Abu Abdullah, MD • Daniel Cottrell, MD  Clinical Assistant Professor: • Marshall Fleurant, MD • Amy Linsky, MD • Peter Smith, MD • Lisa Quintiliani, PhD • Catherine Rich, MD  Instuctor • Bonnie Sherman, PhD • Ethan Bortniker, MD • Jenny Siegel, MD  Clinical Instructor: • Lily Somwaru-Ackermann, MD • Jean Delva, NP  Adjunct Professor: • Cleo Ferrao, NP • Karen Freund, MD • Jan Fleischman, NP • Anita Raj, PhD

 Joel Caslowitz, MD  Daniel Chen, MD, MSc  Melissa DiPetrillo, MD  Christine Phillips, MD  James Meisel, MD

“There are, however, centres of excellence in addiction, and few rival the Boston Medical Center’s Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit.” Best of Boston, Top Docs for 2012

Thomas Barber, MD Jeffrey Samet, MD, MPH Elaine Hylek, MD, MPH Robert Witzburg, MD Angela Jackson, MD

 Nicholas Theodore to Henri Lee and Donna  Yehuda and Hillel to Adam Rose and Joanne  Frederick James to Elizabeth Karwowski and Matt  Cecilia Anne to Craig Noronha and Ansu  Emily to Catherine Rich and Andrew  Adam Nassir to Amy Alawad and Magid  Anya to Debbie Cheng and Parth  Phillippa Rose to Christine Pace and Andy  Audrey Ann to Carly Bridden and Paul  Christos to Marjory Charlot and Nikos  Lucy to Sarah Bagley and Steve  Sophie Triana to Alissa Cruz and Ricardo  Marjory Charlot to Nick  Raj Krishnamurthy to Joe

 Transformation of GIM PC to enhance care quality, efficiency and both patient and provider satisfaction while achieving the criteria of a PCMH  Engagement of all PC physicians and other team members to contribute to the improvements of outpatient clinical care  Receipt of grant support for and performance of work commitments associated with GIM research studies  Provide sufficient support to enable the further development of the academic and clinical character of the GIM Clinician Educators – both PC and Hospital-based  Pursuit of a balance of clinical, research and educational expectations for all faculty Most Valuable Player Award goes to…… Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH

Most Valuable Player Award

Talented, inspiring and hardworking

faculty and staff

Many achievements and metrics of success

A period of transitions, stresses and challenges often met with renewed energy and sense of purpose A heartfelt thank you for all the hard work done and good work ahead to advance constructively in these times! Thanks to Sarah Brunt and Debra Paarz for all the persistence and talent in preparing this State of the Section