PHILADELPHIA – After a national search, Judith Long, MD, co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-director of the Center for the Evaluation of Patient Aligned Care Teams at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, has been selected to serve as the chief of the division of General Internal Medicine, effective July 1, 2015. Long formerly served as director of Penn Medicine’s Master of Science in Health Policy Research.
Looking through the lens of chronic diseases, diabetes in particular, Long has worked to understand the effects that that racial and socioeconomic disparities can have on health. Much of her work centers on interventions to support behavioral change, evaluating those methods in the context of randomized controlled trials.
Long has had 62 accepted or published peer-reviewed manuscripts, 4 peer-reviewed reviews and 7 editorials in highly regarded journals, including the Journal of General Internal Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine.
“As the chief of one of the most highly respected General Internal Medicine divisions in the country, Dr. Long will build upon the strong foundation of excellence and take the Division in exciting new directions,” said Michael Parmacek, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Parmacek went on to state “that Dr. Long will play a key role in Penn Medicine’s evolving strategy to provide accessible primary care of patients with complex chronic disease conditions.”
Long received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Chicago and her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following her internship and residency at the University of California, San Francisco, Long worked for a year at Penn Medicine as a clinician educator fellow. She went on to complete a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program fellowship at Yale University before returning to Penn as an assistant professor of General Internal Medicine. She was later promoted to associate professor.
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