Department of Medicine Faculty Profile

Marshall Chin
Section of General Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, General Internal Medicine Research
e-mail: mchin@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Referring Physician Access Line: 1-877-DOM-2730

Training:

Degree	Year	Institution	Area
AB	1985	Harvard College	History and Science
MD	1989	University of California, San Francisco
Residency	1992	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Internal Medicine
Fellowship	1994	Harvard Medical School	General Internal Medicine
MPH	1994	Harvard School of Public Health	Public Health

Academic Interests:

Dr. Chin investigates how to improve the care and outcomes of vulnerable patients with chronic disease. Current projects improve diabetes care in community health centers and assess treatment preferences of older persons with diabetes.

Clinical Interests:

General internal medicine.

Representative Publications:

Chin MH, Cook S, Drum ML, Jin L, Guillen M, Humikowski CA, Koppert J, Harrison JF, Lippold S, Schaefer CT. Improving diabetes care in Midwest community health centers with the Health Disparities Collaborative. Diabetes Care 2004;27:2-8
Chin MH, Cook S, Jin L, Drum ML, Harrison JF, Koppert J, Thiel F, Harrand AG, Schaefer CT, Takashima HT, Chiu SC. Barriers to providing diabetes care in community health centers. Diabetes Care 2001; 24:268-274.
Chin MH, Zhang JX, Merrell K. Diabetes in the African-American Medicare population: morbidity, quality of care, and resource utilization. Diabetes Care 1998; 21:1090-1095.
Chin MH, Humikowski CA. When is risk stratification by race or ethnicity justified in medical care? Acad Med 2002; 77:202-208.
Chin MH, Muramatsu N. What is the quality of quality of medical care measures?: Rashomon-like relativism and real-world applications. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2003; 46:5-20.