Behavioral Medicine is the interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge and techniques relevant to the understanding of health and illness, and the application of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. As such, behavioral medicine constitutes a core discipline for general internal medicine. Hopkins GIM is home to one of the nation’s oldest training grants in behavioral and preventive medicine, Research Training Program in Behavioral Aspects of Heart and Vascular Diseases, sponsored by the NHLBI and directed by Dr. David Levine.
Lawrence Appel, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and International Health; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Lifestyle modification for cardiovascular disease prevention
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Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Health, Behavior & Society; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Physician-Patient relationship and communication
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Felicia Hill-Briggs, PhD, ABPP
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Research psychology, psychometrics, patient problem-solving and self-management
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Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; Director, Division of GIM; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Behavioral aspects of Type 2 diabetes
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Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Behavior & Society; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clincal Research
Research Interests: Physician-patient communication; race and gender in patient care
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Daniel Ford, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management; Core Faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Research Interests: Non-pharmacologic treatment of depression
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David M. Levine, MD, ScD, MPH
Samsung Professor of Medicine; Director, Research Training Program in Behavioral Aspects of Heart and Vascular Diseases
Research Interests: Community-based prevention of cardiovascular disease; behavioral aspects of prevention
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