Brian W. Jack, MD
Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Family Medicine

MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
MA, Brown University
BA, Clark University



Brian Jack, MD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He is Director of the Boston University Center for Health System Design & Implementation, a center within the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy.

Dr. Jack graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed his residency at Brown University. He completed a fellowship at the University of Washington. He came to BU in 1997 as the founding Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine. He authored over 190 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters, reviewed papers for major medical journals, and served on NICHHD, HRSA and AHRQ grant review panels. He was PI on grants from NHLBI, NIMHD, Fogarty Center, AHRQ, PCORI, HRSA, European Union, Global Fund, and the Izumi, Dreyfus, Kellogg, Kirby and Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundations.

His research team has developed the “ReEngineered Discharge” (Project RED), adapted by the National Quality Forum as a national safe practice. RED is used in many hospitals throughout the US and internationally. He completed projects with AHRQ funding to conduct an in-depth analysis of the hospital discharge process. The article describing the RCT testing RED is listed in the book “50 Studies Every Physician Should Know.” He explored implementation of RED in a project in 10 hospitals across the US (AHRQ). He developed a conversational agent system to deliver RED at the bedside called “Louise” (NHLBI) that was highlighted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Jack then completed AHRQ funded projects to adapt Louise for use by patients being discharged from the hospital and to design a tool kit describing the RED processes https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/index.html. Two PCORI funded projects explored causes of readmission from the patient perspective, and explored the optimal transitional care components (Project ACHIEVE). His team then RCT of a mental health intervention to reduce rehospitalizations for those with depressive symptoms (AHRQ R01, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation).

In 1990, Dr. Jack published a paper in JAMA that was the first describing the new concept of preconception care. He received the 2008 CDC “Partner in Public Health Improvement” award for his work with the CDC’s Select Panel on the Content of Preconception Care that helped define the content of preconception care. He designed a preconception care health IT system (Gabby) to assist in the delivery of preconception care (AHRQ, Kellogg) and conducted an RCT of its impact (HRSA MCHB, NIMHD R01) published in The Lancet Digital Health in 2020. He is now studying the implementation of Gabby into Healthy Start sites and community health centers (AHRQ), culturally adapting the system to the southern African country of Lesotho (Fogarty Center) and adapting the system to men (Kellogg). He is now working with a team in Ethiopia to expand this work.

Dr. Jack received the Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-Profit Innovation in 2013. He received the AHRQ “Patient Safety Investigator” award and was named one of AHRQ grantees “whose work has led to significant changes in health care policy and notably influenced research and practice.” He received the “Patient Care Award for Excellence in Patent Education Innovation”, the “Best Research Paper of the Year” award, and the Gabriel Smilkstein Award for career work in global health from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. HealthLeaders magazines selected him to its annual “People Who Make Healthcare Better” list, and his 2016 article in the Journal for Healthcare Quality was the Impact Article of the Year. He was one of Boston’s “Best Doctors” in each of 2010-2015. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Dr. Jack is active in the worldwide development of family medicine. He is Director of the Lesotho Boston Health Alliance (LeBoHA) that aims to increase human resources in the health sector in Lesotho. Over 20 years LeBoHA initiated the first physician-training program in the country. He is a founding member of the AAFP’s Center for International Initiatives and received the Gabriel Smilkstein Award for global family medicine education. He spent a sabbatical year in Budapest, Hungary in 1995 where he received a special citation from the mayor of Budapest. He taught in Jordan and Pakistan and worked to help develop family medicine in Albania, Jordan, Romania, and Vietnam.


Building Infrastructure for Human Resources for Health in Lesotho
10/01/2018 - 09/30/2024 (PI)
U.S. Agency for International Development
AID-ASHA-A-17-00006

Strengthening Lesotho Ministry of Health Clinical Services Management Capacity for National Dissemination of Problem Solving for Better Health (PSBH) and Implementation of the Health Ministries Qualit
07/01/2020 - 06/30/2022 (PI)
Dreyfus Health Foundation


National Dissemination of the Gabby Women's mHealth Program in Lesotho
08/09/2019 - 04/30/2022 (PI)
NIH/Fogarty International Center
5R21TW011361-02

National Dissemination of Problem Solving for Better Health (PSBH) in Lesotho
04/01/2019 - 03/31/2020 (PI)
Dreyfus Health Foundation


The online Gabe System: Promoting Health in Young Black Men
07/01/2015 - 06/30/2019 (PI)
W.K. Kellogg Foundation


National Dissemination of Problem Solving for Better Health (PSBH) in Lesotho
04/01/2018 - 03/31/2019 (PI)
Dreyfus Health Foundation


The Gabby Preconception Care System
01/01/2014 - 12/31/2016 (PI)
Kellogg Foundation


Preparing for Primary Care Practice of the Future: Comprehensive Care of the Medically Underserved
09/30/2015 - 09/29/2016 (PI)
HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration
6D54HP23290-05-02

Boston University's Gabby Preconception Care System: Health IT to disseminate sexuality education
07/01/2014 - 06/30/2016 (PI)
F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.


Preparing for Primary Care Practice/ Academic Administrative units in Primary Care
09/30/2011 - 09/29/2015 (PI)
HHS/Health Resources and Services Administration
6D54HP23290-04-01

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Implementation and Dissemination of 'GabbyNULL, a Health Information Technology(HIT) System for You…
09/01/2017 - 12/31/2022 (PI)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/DHHS
5R18HS025131-02

Building Research Skills Among Emerging Family Medicine Postgraduate Training Programs and the…
01/01/2020 - 04/30/2022 (PI)
Consortium of Universities for Global Health

Project ACHIEVE
01/01/2015 - 06/30/2019 (PI)
University of Kentucky Research Foundation Patient-Centered Out

Reducing Hospital Readmission Among Medical Patients with Depressive Symptoms
07/01/2012 - 06/30/2019 (PI)
DHHS/AHRQ
5R01 HS019700-03

Reducing Hospital Readmission Among Medical Patients with Depressive Symptoms
07/01/2012 - 06/30/2019 (PI)
DHHS/AHRQ
5R01HS019700-05

Using Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African
09/01/2016 - 01/31/2019 (PI)
NIH-NIMHD
3R01MD006213-05S1

Using Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African
07/12/2012 - 01/31/2019 (PI)
NIH-NIMHD
4R01MD006213-05

Using Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African
07/12/2012 - 01/31/2019 (PI)
NIH-NIMHD
5R01 MD006213-04

Training in Health Services Research for Vulnerable Populations
07/03/2013 - 06/30/2018 (PI)
DHHS/AHRQ
5T32HS022242-02

Training in Health Services Research for Vulnerable Populations
07/03/2013 - 06/30/2018 (PI)
DHHS/AHRQ
5T32HS022242-05

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2020 National Dissemination of the Gabby Women's mHealth Program in Lesotho 5R21TW011361-02
2020 Implementation and Dissemination of 'Gabby,' a Health Information Technology (HIT) System for Young Women, into Community-Based Clinical Sites 5R18HS025131-04
2019 National Dissemination of the Gabby Women's mHealth Program in Lesotho 1R21TW011361-01
2019 Implementation and Dissemination of 'Gabby,' a Health Information Technology (HIT) System for Young Women, into Community-Based Clinical Sites 5R18HS025131-03
2018 Implementation and Dissemination of 'Gabby,' a Health Information Technology (HIT) System for Young Women, into Community-Based Clinical Sites 5R18HS025131-02
2017 Implementation and Dissemination of 'Gabby,' a Health Information Technology (HIT) System for Young Women, into Community-Based Clinical Sites 1R18HS025131-01
2017 Training in Health Services Research for Vulnerable Populations 5T32HS022242-05 19
2016 Training in Health Services Research for Vulnerable Populations 5T32HS022242-04 19
2016 Using Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African 4R01MD006213-05 2
2016 Using Innovative Communication Technology to Improve the Health of Young African 3R01MD006213-05S1 2
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  1. Nkabane-Nkholongo E, Mpata-Mokgatle M, Jack BW, Julce C, Bickmore T. Usability and Acceptability of a Conversational Agent Health Education App (Nthabi) for Young Women in Lesotho: Quantitative Study. JMIR Hum Factors. 2024 Mar 12; 11:e52048. PMID: 38470460; PMCID: PMC10966441; DOI: 10.2196/52048;
     
  2. McGuire CM, Kaiser JL, Vian T, Nkabane-Nkholongo E, Nash T, Jack BW, Scott NA. Learning from the End of the Public-Private Partnership for Lesotho's National Referral Hospital Network. Ann Glob Health. 2024; 90(1):19.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38463454; PMCID: PMC10921972; DOI: 10.5334/aogh.4377;
     
  3. Kambulandu M, Ogundipe RM, Bryden M, Sao L, Thompson DM, McGuire CM, Jack BW. Psychological distress and PTSD among clinicians in Roma, Lesotho during the COVID-19 pandemic. S Afr Fam Pract (2004). 2024 Feb 29; 66(1):e1-e7. PMID: 38572883; PMCID: PMC10913056; DOI: 10.4102/safp.v66i1.5785;
     
  4. Nkabane-Nkholongo E, Mokgatle M, Bickmore T, Julce C, Thompson D, JAck B. Change in Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge among Young Women Using the Conversational Agent "Nthabi" in Lesotho: A Clinical Trial. Res Sq. 2023 Dec 28. PMID: 38234736; PMCID: PMC10793503; DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3788533/v1;
     
  5. Nkabane-Nkholongo E, Mokgatle M, Bickmore T, Julce C, Jack BW. Adaptation of the Gabby conversational agent system to improve the sexual and reproductive health of young women in Lesotho. Front Digit Health. 2023; 5:1224429. PMID: 37860039; PMCID: PMC10584320; DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1224429;
     
  6. Carlozzi NE, Kallen MA, Troost JP, Miner JA, Bragg A, Martin-Howard J, De La Cruz B, Moldovan I, Jack BW, Mitchell S. Development of a New Measure of Housing Security: The REDD-CAT Housing Security Measure. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Mar 24; 1-15.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36964423; PMCID: PMC10038379; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08147-x;
     
  7. Carlozzi NE, Kallen MA, Troost JP, Miner JA, Bragg A, Martin-Howard J, De La Cruz B, Moldovan I, Jack BW, Mitchell S. Development of a New Measure of Housing Security: The REDD-CAT Housing Security Measure. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Jul; 38(9):2164-2178.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36964423; PMCID: PMC10038379; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08147-x;
     
  8. Carlozzi NE, Kallen MA, Troost JP, Bragg A, Martin-Howard J, De La Cruz B, Miner JA, Moldovan I, Jack BW, Mitchell S. Development and calibration data for the Healthcare Access Item Bank: a new computer adaptive test for persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Qual Life Res. 2023 Mar; 32(3):781-796.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36315318; PMCID: PMC10472318; DOI: 10.1007/s11136-022-03278-w;
     
  9. Carlozzi NE, Kallen MA, Troost J, Bragg A, Martin-Howard J, Moldovan I, Miner JA, Jack BW, Mitchell S. Development and calibration data for the Medication Adherence Item Bank: a new computer adaptive test for persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Qual Life Res. 2023 Mar; 32(3):813-826.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36306065; PMCID: PMC10472277; DOI: 10.1007/s11136-022-03275-z;
     
  10. Mitchell S, Kallen MA, Troost JP, Bragg A, Martin-Howard J, Moldovan I, Miner JA, Jack BW, Carlozzi NE. Development and calibration data for the Illness Burden item bank: a new computer adaptive test for persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Qual Life Res. 2023 Mar; 32(3):797-811.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36282447; PMCID: PMC10472317; DOI: 10.1007/s11136-022-03282-0;
     
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This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 175 publications over 37 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2008

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2019 CityMatCH : Best Conference presentation (Gabby)
2019 Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance (LeBoHA): Given name "Tiisetso" meaning perseverance for developing first postgrad physician training program
2018 HIMSS : Global Developer Challenge winner (for the Gabby System) and a $5,000 cash awardd
2017 Agency for Health Research and Quality: Named to grantee list whose work has led to significant changes in health care policy
2016 Journal for Healthcare Quality: Impact Article of the Year
2015 Mattapan Community Health Center: Community Health Pinnacle Award
2013 National Academy of Medicine: Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
2013 Society of Teacher of Family Medicine: Gabriel Smilkstein Award for contributions to global family medicine
2013 Drucker Foundation: Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation and $100,000 cash award
2012 RWJ publication : Project RED RCT manuscript listed in the book "50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know"
2010 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine: Research Paper of the Year
2010-2014 Boston Magazine : Named to Boston’s Best Doctors list
2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Partner in Public Health Improvement Award
2007 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine: Patient Care Award for Excellence in Patient Education Innovation
2007 Agency for Health Research and Quality: Patient Safety Investigator of the Month
1995 Mayor of Budapest, Hungary: Special Citation for work developing Family Medicine
1990 Brown University: Teacher of the Year - Department of Family Medicine
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