Marcella Nunez-Smith MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program; Faculty, Global Health Leadership Institute

Biographical Info

Dr. Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine, Core Faculty in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, and Research Faculty at Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute. Dr. Nunez-Smith’s research focuses on promoting healthcare equity for vulnerable populations with an emphasis on healthcare workforce development, patient assessment of healthcare experiences, and healthcare system strengthening to address chronic disease in low and middle resource settings. She is the principal investigator on several NIH and foundation-funded research projects, including an NIH-fund project to develop a tool to assess patient reported experiences of discrimination in healthcare. In 2011 she received NIH funding to establish the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes and Research Network (ECHORN), a research collaborative across four Eastern Caribbean islands that will recruit and follow a community-dwelling adult cohort to examine chronic disease burden and to enhance health outcomes research and leadership capacity in the region. Dr. Nunez-Smith has received numerous awards including the Association of American Medical College’s Herbert W. Nicken’s Faculty Fellowship in 2008 in recognition of her contributions to healthcare workforce diversity and healthcare equity research and a 2011 American Medical Student Association’s Women Leaders in Medicine award. Dr. Nunez-Smith has a BA from Swarthmore College, an MD from Jefferson Medical College, and an MHS from Yale University.

Education & Training

B.A.

Swarthmore College (1996)

M.D.

Jefferson Medical College (2001)

M.H.S.

Yale University (2006)

Resident

Brigham & Women's Hospital, Internal Medicine (2001 - 2004)

Fellow

, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program (2004 - 2006)

Board Certification

Internal Medicine, Board Certified  (2004)

Honors & Recognition

• Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award nominee, Association of American Medical Colleges
  
• Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellow award recipient, Association of American Medical Colleges
  
• Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellow
  Yale University (2012)
• Leah Lowenstein Award
  Yale University (2011)
• Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Award for Scientific Abstract Submission finalist, Society of General Internal Medicine
  
• Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
  
• Sigma Xi Honorary Research Fraternity
  
• Women Leaders in Medicine
  American Medical Student Association (2011)
• Joan F. Giambalvo Memorial Scholarship Award
  AMA Foundation (2012)