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Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD

Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program

Professor and Department Head
Department of Family and Community Medicine
College of Medicine

Email: mjimbo@uic.edu 

Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAFP, is Professor and Department Head of Family and Community Medicine in the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC and he practices at UI Health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He has obtained major funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to investigate patient and clinician communication utilizing decision aids and shared decision making, cancer screening and prevention in primary care, and clinician acceptance of practice interventions. In his current roles, he oversees efforts to improve health equity, particularly related to cancer but also substance use disorder, inpatient and outpatient medicine, home visits and primary care physician training in AIDS/HIV. He has worked extensively on research projects in primary care practices. Having worked as a family physician in both urban and rural underserved areas, he has first-hand knowledge of how competing patient issues can crowd out important patient education issues when patients visit their physicians.

Language : English, Japanese

Education

  • MD, PhD, Keio University School of Medicine

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Research Focus

  • Cancer Prevention and Control
  • Cancer Screening
  • Patient/Physician Communication
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Disease Prevention
  • Cancer Prevention And Control