- ### Specialties
    
    health equity; emergency medicine
 
 

- ### Contact
    
     [617.414.3564](tel:617.414.3564)
- ### Primary Location
    
    BMC, Menino Pavilion  
    [840 Harrison Ave.  
    Boston, MA 02118](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?q=840+Harrison+Ave.%2C+Boston%2C+MA+02118)
 
 

 



 

 

## About

As Vice President of Mission, Thea L. James, MD, MBA, works with caregivers throughout Boston Medical Center (BMC).

Additionally, Dr. James has primary responsibility for coordinating and maximizing BMC’s relationships and strategic alliances with a wide range of local, state and national multisector organizations, including community agencies, housing advocates, and others that partner with BMC. The goal is to foster innovative ...  and effective new models of care that are essential for patients and communities to thrive and reach full potential.

This includes focus on the intersections of health and wealth, economic mobility and other upstream drivers of predictable poor health outcomes. These care models are critical to operationalizing equity in the broadest sense.

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- ### Administrative Title
    
    Professor of Emergency Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
 
 

 

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