## About

Alexis F. Gallardo Foreman, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in pulmonary medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where she serves as co-director of the Tobacco Treatment Center. She is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Gallardo Foreman received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree (DNP) ...  from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. She also holds a Master of Science in Nursing degree from Regis College as well as a Master of Arts in Intercultural Relations from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Gallardo Foreman is a trained Tobacco Cessation Specialist. She also regularly collaborates with the BMC Lung Cancer Screening Program to educate patients and promote vape and smoking cessation. She is also experienced at treating patients with chronic respiratory failure, long COVID, restrictive lung disease, and sleep-disordered breathing, and who are undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation.

Dr. Gallardo Foreman has witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of barriers such as food and housing insecurity, inadequate transportation, lack of dependent care, and low health literacy on patients in marginalized communities, and is dedicated to reducing these barriers and promoting diversity and equity. In BMC’s Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, she has seen how limited access to preventive care, low health literacy, and challenges navigating the healthcare system can manifest as advanced lung disease, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and poorly controlled asthma.

In collaboration with Jinesa Howard, MPH, Dr. Gallardo Foreman developed a COPD readmission reduction program that successfully decreased hospitalwide COPD readmissions to 17.9 percent by addressing patients’ social determinants of health. Resources developed for this project, such as multilingual instructional videos and handouts on inhaler techniques and nicotine replacement therapies, are now used to educate patients, providers, and staff across BMC, and Dr. Gallardo Foreman has been invited to mentor and lecture on the project at other hospitals.

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- ### Departments
    
    [Pulmonology](/departments/pulmonology), [Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Program](/departments/pulmonology/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd-program), [Chronic Respiratory Failure Clinic](/departments/pulmonology/chronic-respiratory-failure-clinic), [Tobacco Treatment Center](/departments/pulmonology/tobacco-treatment-center)
- ### Specialties
    
    Asthma; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); chronic lung disease; chronic respiratory failure; long COVID; nicotine addiction; nicotine replacement therapy (NRT); pulmonary disease; pulmonary rehabilitation; pulmonology; restrictive lung disease; sleep-disordered breathing; smoking cessation; tobacco addiction
- ### Pronouns
    
    She/Her
 
 

- ### Contact
    
     [617.638.7480](tel:617.638.7480)
- ### Primary Location
    
    BMC, Shapiro Center  
    [725 Albany St.  
    9th Floor, Suite 9B  
    Boston, MA 02118](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?q=725+Albany+St.%2C+Boston%2C+MA+02118)
 
 

 



 

 

- ### Administrative Title
    
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- ### Education
    
    DNP, Regis College, Weston, MA, 2023
    
    MSN, Regis College, Weston, MA, 2012
    
    MA, Intercultural Relations, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
- ### Board Certifications
    
    Family Nurse Practitioner—Board-Certified (FNP-BC), American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
    
    Member, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
    
    Member, Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners
 
 

 

 ## Affiliations

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  ## Affiliations

  ###  ![Boston University](https://www.bmc.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2024-04/busm-new.jpg?itok=gJTsGGU9) 

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