"Promotion of Women in Academic Medicine: A Unique Pathway to Achieve Health Equity"

The I.G. Bromberg Memorial Visiting Professorship

Speaker:

Jada Bussey-Jones, M.D.
Carter Smith, Sr. Professor of Medicine
Chief, Grady General Medicine
Emory University

About Jada Bussey Jones:

Dr. Bussey-Jones holds a bachelor's degree in biology and sociology from Emory University, where she also received her medical degree. She obtained clinical training at the University of Maryland before completing a research apprenticeship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she worked on issues involving health care disparities. Additionally, she completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Her academic work centers on interventions to mitigate health disparities and understand and address social determinants of health. She founded the Social Medicine Work Group in the Division of General Internal Medicine. This group of faculty members devotes itself to educational projects, research, and community service-related issues in caring for underserved populations. She is an active member on several community boards. In addition to her local work, Dr. Bussey-Jones is involved with several regional and national organizations, including serving as Chair of the National Disparities Education Task Force for the Society of General Internal Medicine where she led work on an award-winning curriculum and pre-course on disparities education and a national effort to develop and implement a "train-the-trainer" disparities curriculum.