| GIM Fellowship alumnus Dr. Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MA, MPH, has recently been promoted to the rank of associaie professor at Boston University School of Medicine. He serves as the Associate Program Director for the Boston University School of Medicine General Internal Medicine Academic Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program and is currently the research mentor for 6 post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty members. |
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| Dr. Paasche-Orlow is a nationally recognized expert in the field of health literacy. He is a co-investigator on seven funded grants that examine health literacy, including two intervention studies that will evaluate simplified information technologies for behavior change among minority patients with a range of health literacy levels. He was a guest editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine for a special issue on health literacy in 2006 and is currently serving as a guest editor for the journal Patient Education and Counseling for a special issue on health literacy to be published in 2009. | |






