Brian Jack, MD
Principal Investigator

Brian Jack, MD, is Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine / Boston Medical Center. Dr. Jack graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed his residency training at the Brown University and fellowship at University of Washington. He has authored over 60 peer reviewed papers for major medical journals, served on NICHHD, HRSA, and CDC grant review panels and is currently PI on grants from HRSA, AHRQ, CDC and NHLBI totaling over 6.5 million dollars (direct).

For his work relating to improving patient safety at hospital discharge (Project RED), he received the “Patient Care Award for Excellence in Patent Education Innovation” from the Society of Family Medicine in 2007 and the AHRQ “Patient Safety Investigator of the Month” in 2007. He was selected to HealthLeaders magazine’s "People Who Make Healthcare Better" list. He is a member of the CDC's "Select Panel on Preconception Care", co-chair the Clinical Care Committee and co-editor of a supplement to the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology describing the content of preconception care for which he received the CDC "Partner in Public Health Improvement” award (only one award is given to an individual outside the CDC each year).

He has also been active in the worldwide development of primary care. He spent a sabbatical year in Budapest, Hungary in 1995 receiving a special citation from the mayor of Budapest. He served as a consultant to USAID, the World Bank, the US Department of State and the Rockefeller and Kellogg Foundations on the development of family medicine in Lesotho, Albania, Jordan, Romania, and Vietnam. He is a founding member of the American Academy of Family Physicians Center for International Initiatives. Currently he is the clinical director of Kellogg foundation funded program in Lesotho in southern Africa.