Masahito Jimbo
Professor and Department Head, Family and Community Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Mas Jimbo (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC)
Dr. Masahito “Mas” Jimbo is a professor and department head of family and community medicine in the University of Illinois College of Medicine who also practices at UI Health. In addition, Jimbo is a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center.
In his current role, he oversees efforts to improve health equity, particularly related to cancer but also substance use disorder, inpatient and outpatient medicine, home visits, and primary care physician training in AIDS/HIV. He has worked extensively on research projects in primary care practices. Having worked as a family physician in both urban and rural underserved areas, Jimbo has first-hand knowledge of how competing patient issues can crowd out important patient education issues when patients visit their physicians.
Jimbo’s clinical interests include all aspects of wellness, prevention, and screening, including hypertension, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and heart failure. He has obtained major funding from the National Cancer Institute to investigate patient and clinician communication utilizing decision aids and shared decision-making, cancer screening and prevention in primary care and clinician acceptance of practice interventions. He has worked extensively in the areas of inpatient medicine, guidelines development, population-based medicine and faculty development.
Areas of Expertise
- Family medicine
- Cancer screening and prevention
- Heart failure
- Hypertension
- Chronic kidney disease
- Inpatient medicine
