"Cambridge Health Alliance is unique, driven by a mission of service for the oppressed. It fulfills this mission not just by seeking excellence in the clinic, but also by nurturing research and advocacy on behalf of the underserved."
Danny McCormick, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Division of Social and Community Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the CHA, co-director of the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care and he leads the Department of Medicine's general medicine research team. He received his internal medicine training at the Boston City Hospital, his general medicine fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and a Master’s Degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC and a staff member of United States Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions under Senator Edward M. Kennedy (2005-2006).
Dr. McCormick is a primary care internist at one of CHA’s community health centers that serves a socioeconomically and racially and ethnically diverse community. He is also a health services researcher and serves as research mentor to general medicine fellows, residents and Harvard Medical students.
Dr. McCormick’s research has focused on the evaluation of access to and quality of medical care for disadvantaged populations (the uninsured, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, prisoners and veterans), physician support for alternative models of health care financing, public disclosure of health plan performance, the impact of industry funding on the design of pharmaceutical trials, media reporting on conflicts of interest in such trials and the impact of the Massachusetts health care reform on access to care.
He is also actively involved in teaching clinical medicine, health policy, and physician advocacy. He developed an innovative curriculum in research-based physician advocacy that has become a core element of the CHA Internal medicine residency program training.