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Linda L. Barnes

Associate Professor Director, Boston Healing Landscape Program http://www.bu.edu/bhlp/ Pediatrics Address: One Boston Medical Center Place, Boston, MA 02118 Phone: 617-414-4534 Email: linda.barnes@bmc.org

Areas of Interest: religiously based healing practices popular among African-Americans and members of African Diaspora communities in and around Boston

Languages: Spanish, French, Latin, Poruguese, Italian, German, Haitian Creole

Surveys the religiously based healing practices popular among African-Americans and members of African Diaspora communities in and around Boston in an effort to improve communication between doctors and patients. This multi-institutional project is coordinating several studies that examine how minorities supplement or find alternatives to modern Western medicine. The information gathered will be integrated eventually into the BU School of Medicine's curriculum.