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Masahito Jimbo
Professor of Family Medicine and Professor of Urology, Medical School
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 MD (Keio University)
About
Dr. Jimbo is a native of Japan and obtained his MD from Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan. After completing a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in nephrology with PhD at the same institution, he moved to the United States and finished a residency in family medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 1996. After practicing for three years in rural North Carolina, where he also received his MPH through one of the first distant-learning public health leadership programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he returned to Thomas Jefferson University as a faculty for five years before being recruited to the University of Michigan in 2004, where he is currently a professor of family medicine and urology. Having trained in two primary care specialties and practicing in urban, urban underserved, suburban, semirural, and rural underserved areas in two culturally distinct countries, Dr. Jimbo easily straddles the medical communities of the United States and Japan and has extensive knowledge of important issues that affect primary care in both countries. More recently, Dr. Jimbo has pursued greater leadership roles within his department. In addition to the chief of university family medicine inpatient service, which he has led since 2010, he has been selected in 2017 as the inaugural director of faculty development.
Current Work
In addition to his MPH training, Dr. Jimbo received additional expertise in behavioral intervention and research through hands-on research on patient and physician-targeted behavioral interventions at Thomas Jefferson University. This has led him to a successful research career with multiple grants, including a R01 from the National Cancer Institute. His current research incorporates the expertise of family physicians, including patient/physician communication, cancer screening, and common disease. His most recent research evaluated the effect of decision aids on patient's attitudes and behavior, as well as shared decision making between the patient and the physician.
Research Area Keyword(s)
cancer screening, Hypertension, patient/physician communication, primary care, Shared decision making