Lenny Lopez, MD, MPH, MDiv
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
MPH, Harvard University School of Public Health, 2005
MDIV, Harvard University Divinity School, 1999
MD, University of Pennsylvania, 2001

Dr. López is an internist trained at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), who completed the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and a hospital medicine fellowship at BWH, where he currently serves as a hospitalist.  Dr. López joined the MIHP in 2008 after his fellowship in general internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.  His research interests extend across a range of issues relating to the quality of hospital care, including the effects of hospitalists and racial and ethnic disparities in care.  He has several publications from his fellowship research on these topics, as well as publications relating to his interests in the ethics of health care delivery and graduate medical education. Dr. López also teaches medical students and residents, with lectures and preceptorships addressing clinical skills, prejudice and discrimination relating to race and ethnicity, and quality of care reporting.

Dr. López has received the Aetna /Disparities Solutions Center HealthCare Disparities Fellowship.  He serves on the Cross-Cultural Committee at Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Workforce Diversity.  He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the National Hispanic Medical Society, the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the Boston Association of Academic Hospitalists in Medicine.