2008 Mid-Career Faculty Achievement Award Winner:
Joanne E. Wilkinson, MD, MSc
Boston University Medical Center
Department of Family Medicine
Dowling 5 South
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-4198
Cell: (401) 932-3179
Email: Joanne.Wilkinson@bmc.org
Joanne E. Wilkinson, MD, MSc is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Associate Director for Predoctoral Education in the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University. A graduate of Brown University and Brown University Medical School, she completed her residency training as Assistant Chief Resident in the Brown University/Memorial Hospital residency program. She received the STFM Resident Teacher Award in 1998. For six years, she worked in a variety of private practice settings and was a member of the community faculty at Brown, winning a Parke-Davis Teacher Development Award (2000) and the Community Preceptor of the Year Award (2001). In 2004 she began a Faculty Development Fellowship at Boston University and finished, with a Masters of Science in Epidemiology, in 2006, joining the Department’s full-time faculty.
Her current position is evenly split between clinical work, teaching, and research. Fluent in Spanish, she sees primarily Latino patients in the faculty clinic at Boston Medical Center and participates in the inpatient rounding system. Her predoctoral work involves teaching medical students at all levels and running an innovative pipeline program, FaMeS, which to date has doubled the number of students applying in Family Medicine from Boston University.
Her research is centered on the improvement of primary care quality markers, particularly cancer screening, for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). She has been awarded a grant from the American Cancer Society to study mammography in women with IDD, has been a planner and facilitator of the Medical Homes preconference at the STFM: Northeast Region Meeting since 2006, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the ARC of Massachusetts. |
