Dr. Leonard Egede made three visits to Buffalo while being recruited to serve as the new chair of the department of medicine at the University at Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
The first two were in person and the last was supposed to be a Zoom meeting. But when Egede heard it was with leaders of Buffalo’s Black and East Side community, he opted to attend in person.
“I got very excited for the sense of commitment, vision and the drive to address inequality that is happening in Buffalo,” Egede said. “In so many places I have had to do outreach and build networks to address health disparities, but Buffalo already has a strong core group of community members that we don’t have to build up from scratch.”
Egede, pronounced “Eh-GETTY,” will take over as UB Jacobs chair of medicine from Dr. Brian Murray, who has served as interim chair since Dr. Anne B. Curtis stepped down after 12 years as chair in 2022. Egede also will be president and CEO of UBMD Internal Medicine of the UBMD Physicians’ Group. He will join UB on July 1.
Egede has built a national reputation as a health disparities expert whose work has made an impact on the understanding of how racial and economic disparities affect health care in marginalized communities like Buffalo’s East Side.
UB Jacobs lured him to Buffalo from the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he spent eight years as a tenured professor, chief of internal medicine and director of its Center for Advancing Population Science, among other roles.
The department of medicine is the Jacobs School’s largest, with 13 divisions spanning a wide range of specialties and 200 faculty members who teach, conduct research and provide patient care in Western New York.
UB Jacobs Dean Dr. Allison Brashear said she sought to bring Egede on to lead the medical school’s growing efforts to address health disparities…
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