HMS Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care

Contact Information:

Rachel Quaden

Harvard Medical School
Fellowship in General
Medicine and Primary Care

Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
1309 Beacon Street CO-211
Brookline, MA 02446

Tel (617) 754-1434
Fax (617) 754-1440
Email: GIM Fellowship

FACULTY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

The Cambridge Hospital

Danny McCormick, M.D., M.P.H.

Fellowship Co-Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Division of Social and Community Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance

Danny McCormick, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Division of Social and Community Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance. A practicing general internist and health services researcher, Dr. McCormick’s research has encompassed several areas of inquiry including the evaluation of access to and quality of medical care for disadvantaged populations (the uninsured, immigrants, prisoners and veterans), physician support for alternative models of health care financing, public disclosure of health plan performance, the impact of industry funding on the design of pharmaceutical trials, media reporting on conflicts of interest in such trials and the impact of the Massachusetts health care reform on access to care. He also teaches a month long intensive course on research-based physician advocacy. He served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC and a staff member of United States Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions under Senator Edward M. Kennedy. On the committee his portfolio included health care financing and insurance coverage, health information technology and racial and ethnic disparities in health.

David H. Bor, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Medicine, The Cambridge Hospital

Community-wide approaches to prevention

Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH.

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Access to care, administrative costs of medical care, Healthcare financing

David U. Himmelstein, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Health policy and financing
Design and evaluation of hospital information systems

Richard J. Pels, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Residency Program Director, The Cambridge Hospital

Techniques in medical education in curriculum design, focusing on undergraduate education.

Denotes faculty who graduated from the Fellowship Program