Dr. Johnson was recently named the Director of the Academic Internal Medicine (AIM) Center, an exciting initiative within the division, aimed at enhancing GIM's faculty career growth, satisfaction, and effectiveness for the benefit of patients, learners, and the division as a whole. Dr. Johnson will remain the Chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. We thank him for his many years of service leading the Division and look forward to the immense impact he'll continue to have in his new role with the AIM Center.

About Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, FACP:

Dr. Bussey-Jones received her Bachelor of Arts in biology and sociology and her Medical Degree from Emory University. She completed her clinical training at the University of Maryland and a research apprenticeship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she worked on issues involving health care disparities. Additionally, she completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

A nationally recognized leader in academic general internal medicine, health equity, and faculty development, Dr. Bussey-Jones has dedicated her career to advancing interventions to mitigate health disparities and understand and address social determinants of health. She has delivered more than 100 presentations at regional and national conferences and has sustained continuous federal funding since 2007. Among her most meaningful accomplishments is her transformative leadership and mentorship of faculty, which has led to a threefold increase in scholarly publications and annual grant funding, along with a strong record of fostering faculty belonging, retention, and promotion.

Her national leadership roles include serving as President of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), where she championed inclusive leadership and professional development. She has held key roles in regional and national organizations,  including serving as Chair of the National Disparities Education Task Force for the Society of General Internal Medicine, where she led work on an award-winning curriculum and pre-course on disparities education and a national effort to develop and implement a "train-the-trainer" disparities curriculum. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the 2005 American Business Women’s Association Award for Community Service, the Georgia American College of Physicians Community Service Award (2007), Emory's Nanette Wenger Service Award (2009), the Dean Teaching Award (2013), the Society of General Internal Medicine National Award for Mentorship in Education (2014), the AAMC GDI Exemplary Leadership Award (2023), the Emory Distinguished Medical Achievement Award (2024), election to Mastership in the American College of Physicians (2025), and the prestigious Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award (2025).

As Division Director, Dr. Bussey-Jones will lead efforts to further unify and empower faculty across multiple sites, expand innovative primary care models, and elevate Emory’s national reputation in general internal medicine research and education.

We look forward to Dr. Bussey-Jones' leadership of the division and ask you to welcome her as she helps to lead the Department of Medicine's mission to advance health through discovery, education, and care. Please join us in congratulating her on this important next step in her career and in wishing Dr. Johnson well in his new role with the Division of General Internal Medicine.

Sincerely,

Carlos del Rio, MD, MACP, FIDSA 
Chair, Department of Medicine
H. Cliff Sauls Distinguished Professor of Medicine