Brian Jack, MD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Jack is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and the Department of Family Medicine founding Vice Chair for Academic Affairs. Dr. Jack came to BU in 1997 from Brown University, where he was founder and director of the Department's maternal and child health fellowship program. Dr. Jack received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts and completed his residency training at the Brown University/Memorial Hosptial where he was Chief Resident. He completed a fellowship in Obstetrics and Family Medicine at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. He has an active family medicine practice that includes high risk OB and cesarean section. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters, reviewed papers for major medical journals, served on NICHHD and HRSA grant review panels and currently is PI on grants from HRSA, AHRQ and NHLBI. He is currently a member of the CDCs "Select Panel on Preconception Care". Dr. Jack has also been active in the worldwide development of family medicine and is a founding member of the AAFPs Center for International Initiatives. He spent a sabbatical year in Budapest, Hungary in 1995 where he received a special citation from the mayor of Budapest. He taught the first ALSO courses in Jordan and Pakistan. Dr. Jack has served as a consultant to USAID, the World Bank, the US Department of State and Rockefeller Foundation on the development of family medicine in Lesotho, Albania, Jordan, Romania, and Vietnam.