ICV Value = 85.33
ISSN: 2578-6377
Associate Professor
Department of Geography & Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, United States of America
Tel: (703)-473-9246
Dr. Imam Xierali is working as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at the Louisiana State University and an appointment as the Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Xierali is Manager for Public Health and Diversity Initiatives at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). A broadly trained health geographer with years of health services research experience, he has developed a deep understanding of the physician workforce studies. At AAMC he is participating in an NIH-supported grant project-Urban Universities for HEALTH-to enhance and expand a culturally sensitive, diverse, and prepared health workforce that improves health and reduces health disparities in local urban communities of anchor universities. He is also conducting research for the CDC Cooperative Agreement on integrating concept of public health in medical education. As the Health Geographer and Research Scientist at the American Academy of Family Physicians, he led and participated in spatial analysis of health workforce distribution in a number of projects focusing on the spatial relationships between primary care access and delivery and health outcomes with spatial statistics. Dr. Xierali earned his PhD in geography from the University of Cincinnati.