Rate My Professor L. Ebony Boulware

L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at Duke University, where she also serves as an Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society and an Affiliate of the Center for Biobehavioral Health Disparities Research. She earned her A.B. in English from Vassar College in 1991, her M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine in 1995, and her M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1999. She completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland. Joining the Duke faculty in 2013, she served as Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Nanaline H. Duke University Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Vice Dean for Translational Science in the School of Medicine, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Translational Research. A general internist, physician-scientist, and clinical epidemiologist, her work at Duke advanced health equity in medicine, particularly for chronic conditions.

Dr. Boulware's research specializes in improving health outcomes for individuals and populations with chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and other chronic diseases, with a focus on racial and ethnic disparities among minoritized populations. She has identified patient, provider, system, and community-level barriers to equitable care and developed pragmatic interventions to address them. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including highly cited works such as "Understanding disparities in donor behavior: race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organs" (2003), "Race and trust in the health care system" (2003), "Screening for proteinuria in US adults: a cost-effectiveness analysis" (2003), "Patient awareness of chronic kidney disease: trends and predictors" (2008), and "The case for early identification and intervention of chronic kidney disease" (2021). She has secured more than $80 million in grant funding and mentored numerous medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty. Her contributions earned her the 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award from Duke University School of Medicine, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021, and membership in the National Academy of Medicine, American Society for Clinical Investigation, and Association of American Physicians. As a national leader in health disparities research, she has delivered invited lectures and facilitated the translation of scientific discoveries into clinical and community practice.