Dr. Monika Safford has been appointed to Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Weill Department of Medicine effective January 1, 2016. Recruited from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (UAB), she is a leading scholar in the field of internal medicine.
Dr. Monika Safford
Dr. Safford previously served at UAB School of Medicine as the Inaugural Endowed Professor of Diabetes Prevention and Outcomes Research, Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education, Associate Director of the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education, and Co-Director of UAB's T32 Health Services and Comparative Effectiveness Research Training Program. An active principal investigator with ongoing support from the National Institutes of Health, PCORI, and industrial sources, and more than 260 papers published in the top tier journals, she is an expert in diabetes, cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention, and health disparities. She has received multiple awards for Research Excellence from UAB Department of Medicine, including the UAB Department of Medicine Max Cooper Award for Excellence in Research. Throughout her career as an educator, she has trained and mentored numerous medical students, graduate students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty members. From 1997 to 2003, Dr. Safford was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-NJ Medical School, and she has worked at the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center in Alabama (2003 to 2007). She has chaired national meetings for the Society of General Internal Medicine and the American Diabetes Association for which she serves on a steering committee for an ISTEP medical education initiative and was Co-Chair of the ISTEP Writing Committee. Dr. Safford's honors include the American Association of Medical Colleges Learning Health System Research Pioneer Award (2013-14) and a Gold Honor Society Humanism Program faculty mentor appointment (2012).
Board certified in general internal medicine, Dr. Safford obtained her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College, and completed residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
The Weill Department of Medicine welcomes Dr. Monika M. Safford as the newly appointed Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine.