Division of General Internal
Medicine

Joseph Ravenell, MD, MS; Assistant Professor

Fax: 212-263-4240
E-mail: joseph.ravenell@nyumc.org

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Dr. Joseph Ravenell is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. He is a board-certified internist and American Society of Hypertension-certified clinical hypertension specialist with a strong track record in community-based programs and interventions to reduce racial disparities.

He graduated from the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine in 2000 after earning an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and English from Amherst College. During medical school, he coordinated a focus group study examining African American men’s perceptions of health in Chicago which was the basis for the development of Project Brotherhood, a novel clinic for African American men that features race and gender congruent physicians and offers free haircuts to men who receive healthcare.

His internal medicine training was completed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. He was awarded a National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Minority Postdoctoral Supplement Award to study medication-taking behavior in African Americans with hypertension in 2003. Dr. Ravenell was named a National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Scholar in 2004. In 2005, he received a Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research from Cornell University.

He joined the faculty of the Hypertension Division at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in July 2005, where he served as a co-Investigator and coordinator on the only NIH-funded group randomized trial testing a barbershop-based behavioral intervention to improve hypertension control in African-American men. Dr. Ravenell joined the faculty of NYU School of Medicine in July 2008, where he is a core member of the Center for Healthful Behavior Change.

Dr. Ravenell currently holds a Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award to study a physician-level intervention to improve global cardiovascular risk in African American men, and the American Heart Association Pharmaceutical Roundtable Career Development Award for Implementation Research which focuses on improving prescribing behavior among physicians caring for hypertensive African American patients.

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