Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAFP, is Professor and Department Head of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago and he practices in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UI Health. He joined UIC in 2021. 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.
Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD
Professor and Department Head
Family and Community Medicine
Medicine
Research Program
Cancer Prevention And Control (CPC)
Email: [email protected]
