Pablo A. Buitron de la Vega, MD

Pablo A. Buitron de la Vega, MD, is a board-certified primary care physician and Vice President and Associate CMO at NeighborHealth. After serving for nine years as Medical Director for Boston Medical Center’s THRIVE program, which screens patients for social needs or barriers in their lives that could be affecting their health and provides them with customized referrals and other supports, Dr. Buitron de la Vega has stepped into a strategic advisor role at the program. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Buitron de la Vega received his medical degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito, and completed his internal medicine residency training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He subsequently completed a fellowship in preventive medicine and health services research at BMC.

Dr. Buitron de la Vega’s interests include health care education and the impact on their wellbeing of patients’ attitudes, health beliefs, and social determinants of health (SDOH). He is passionate about the using emerging educational technologies to teach about health equity and SDOH.

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