#  Kavitha Prakash, MD, MPH 

Attending Hospitalist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

 

 



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Kavitha Prakash has been a clinician-educator Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston since 2010. She serves as an Attending Physician on the Internal Medicine wards to BIDMC residents and Harvard Medical Students. She teaches in didactic settings as well and coordinates a lecture series for HMS students at BIDMC. Her work in General Internal Medicine spans both inpatient and outpatient work; she is one of four hospitalists who staffs a post discharge clinic in which those recently discharged from the hospital are seen in close follow up.

She developed an interest in the provision of interpreter services to non-English speaking patients during her prior work as a primary care doctor and during her Commonwealth Fund fellowship. She is now collaborating with the Interpreter Services and Media Services at BIDMC to pilot the use of an IPad to provide an interface between patient and interpreter.

Dr Prakash has been part of Harvard Medical School faculty for nearly 8 years. She previously was a hospitalist for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and prior to that worked as a primary care doctor for the Cambridge Health Alliance, where she provided primary care to a largely immigrant, non-English speaking patient panel. Dr. Prakash received her medical degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1999. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine/Primary Care at the George Washington Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in June 2002. She earned her M.P.H. with a focus on community health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2003 as part of the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship.



 

 

 





 

 

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