Jada Bussey-Jones is the Chief of General Medicine and
Geriatrics for Emory at Grady Memorial Hospital and the Director of Education
at Emory’s Urban Health Initiative. She additionally serves as a Professor and
Distinguished Physician in the Department of Medicine at the Emory University
School of Medicine, where she also founded the Social Medicine Work Group.
Bussey-Jones’ clinical specialty is internal medicine, which she has handled as
a primary care physician over the span of her career. Her academic work
revolves around mitigating health and health care disparities and studying the
social determinants of health. Through her various positions, Bussey-Jones’
translates her scholarship into both hospital- and community-based initiatives,
which she has been recognized for through awards such as the Georgia American
College of Physicians Community Service Award.
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