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ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY | PHARMACEUTICAL PARTNERSHIPS

Priscilla E. Pemu, MD, MS, FACP She has demonstrated sustained collaboration with
institutional, local and National and International leaders
• Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Research; seeking to facilitate effective translation of research between
• Medical Director, in the Clinical Research Center; academic institutions and real-world clinical practice.
• Multi PI for the South East Enrollment Center (SEC) of All Of Us research program;
• Multi PI of the Clinical Research Education and Career Development Program (CRECD) and In the past 15 years, CPN developed asa successful
partnership based on a shared vision for improved care and
• Medical Director of the Community Physician’s Network; an Academic Community outcomes among minority and underserved patients with
partnership that is recognized by the AHRQ as a Practice Based Research Network. Community Physicians who are part of the Morehouse

Community PhysiciansNetwork (CPN).
Dr. Pemu is engaged in direct patient care, research, undergraduate, graduate and resident
mentorship and didactic teaching. She is a successful investigator; whose research enquiry is Overall focus has been on identifying gaps in treatment and outcomes and opportunities for
broadly aimed at improving health outcomes of African Americans and other underserved improvement. As medical Director of the Community Physicians’ Network (CPN), she is
populations. responsible for planning and executing research and quality improvement initiatives. Disease
specific registries for hypertension, diabetes, heart failure and metabolic syndrome were
Specifically, she pursues research that seeks to– developed. These were used to support new research and quality improvement initiatives, like
• Understand the mechanistic basis of vascular dysfunction among obese insulin resistant but the i2b2 data warehouse that is a part of PCORNet.
non-diabetic African American women.
• Improve outcomes of patients with chronic disease by improving self-management skills using a Dr Pemu has worked effectively within the 29-site Morehouse Choice Accountable Care
Organization to implement efforts at care coordination, an effort that included direct patient
patented web/mobile application, Health360x. outreach.

She serves as Principal Investigator of the Morehouse School of Medicine’s R-Center Community Dr. Pemu recently completed a TED residency.As a participant in this highly selective incubator
Based Research Core; Co-PI of the Health Information Technology Implementation arm of the for breakthrough ideas, Dr. Pemu introduced the concept of Culturally Congruent Coaching.
Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center on health disparities and Chair of the Research and Her TED Talk, has been watched over 2 million times and has been translated into 24
Education Committee of the Morehouse Choice Accountable Care Organization-Educational languages . It shares the results of 12 years of research observations about what predicts
System (MCACO-ES), a participant in the Medicare shared Savings Program. successful health behavior change.

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