Jeffrey Greenwald, M.D.
Discharge Intervention Director
Dr. Greenwald is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Greenwald received his medical degree from Harvard University in 1994 and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital in St Louis in1994-97. Dr Greenwald joined the faculty of Boston Medical Center in 1997 as the first internal medicine hospitalist on staff. In that role, Dr Greenwald acts as ward attending, working closely with interns, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, case coordinators, and other support staff. Dr Greenwald has founded and chaired the Boston Association of Academic Hospitalists in Medicine. This organization now has over 70 members from 11 medical centers around Boston. It is a multidisciplinary hospitalist group including representatives from Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics, meeting quarterly to discuss topics relevant to inpatient medicine. Dr. Greenwald is also the Medical Director of the HIV Inpatient Testing Service and HIV Outpatient Testing Service. Through these programs, routine HIV testing has increased over 500% at Boston Medical Center. He was named the first Director of the newly established Boston Medical Center Hospital Medicine Unit. He directed the 2nd Annual Northeast Regional Conference of the National Association of Inpatient Physicians (now Society of Hospital Medicine), sat on the planning committee of the 2004 Society of Hospital Medicine national conference, and currently sits on the national Health Quality and Patient Safety Committee of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He is also a co-investigator on Project BOOST, a John A Hartford Foundation grant to the Society of Hospital Medicine, which endeavors to train hospitalists and other care team members about how to improve the discharge process for older adults.