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Joseph E. Ravenell, MD, MS is a board-certified internist and American Society of Hypertension certified clinical hypertension specialist. He has strong track record in community-based programs and interventions to reduce racial disparities.

Education
Dr. Ravenell earned an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and English from Amherst College in Amherst, MA. In 2000, Dr. Ravenell graduated from the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine. While in medical school, he worked as a research coordinator for a focus group study that examined African American men’s perceptions of health. This research project was the basis for the development a novel clinic for African American men called "Project Brotherhood". The clinic provides health care and free haircuts and features race and gender congruent physicians.

Dr. Ravenell's 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.

Career
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. In 2008, Dr. Ravenell joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at [New York University School of Medicine] as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a core member of the Center for Healthful Behavior Change.

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