Meet the Chief: Dr. Muriel Jean-Jacques
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Chief, Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Muriel Jean-Jacques is Chief of the Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, and a health services researcher. Her research has focused on improving health outcomes for communities in the U.S. that have historically faced discrimination and/or have been chronically underresourced.
Dr. Jean-Jacques received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed a fellowship in health services research at the University of Chicago. She is an unwavering advocate for improving the healthcare experiences and health outcomes of communities that have long faced health disparities. She has worked to advance health equity through research, medical education, institutional leadership, and clinical care.
As a health services researcher, she has implemented and evaluated interventions aimed to reduce healthcare disparities and has received funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Research Services Administration, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As a medical educator, she led curricular initiatives to improve the ability of physicians in training to recognize and address community and individual-level factors that directly impact health, such as lack of access to healthy foods and low health literacy. Clinically, she serves a medically complex panel of patients as a general internist and works to ensure that patients receive the highest quality care, regardless of their social circumstances.