Iman F. Hassan

Iman Hassan, MD, MS, is Director, Community & Population Health Initiatives at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Medicine at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

After completing her Bachelor of Arts in neuroscience and behavior at Columbia University in 2010, Dr. Hassan earned her Doctor of Medicine at Einstein in 2014. Following this, she completed her primary care social internal medicine residency at Montefiore in 2017. She then pursued a fellowship in general internal medicine as well as a Master of Science in medical education at the University of Pittsburgh, completing both in 2019.

Dr. Hassan's research centers around the implementation of social determinants of health programs in the clinical setting. Her research projects include trainee and faculty development in structural competency, cross-departmental curriculum development in the social determinants of health, assessment tools in structural competency, and improving clinical workflow and training in social needs screening and community resource referral. Dr. Hassan oversees the internal medicine residency social determinants of health curriculum and is working on initiatives to promote and further social determinants of health training and program development. She has received grants to support research on the use of home visits to teach about social determinants of health, the use of critical race praxis methodology in social medicine curriculum development, validation of a structural competency clinical assessment tool and validation of a skills checklist for communication with patients about social needs. Dr. Hassan has also participated in the development of a number of social determinants of health curriculum toolkits and resources. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed publications and she has presented nationally. She is also a reviewer for the Journal of General Internal Medicine and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Hassan is board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine. In 2017, she won the Leo M. Davidoff Society Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Medical Students, and in 2021 Dr. Hassan won the COVID-19 Distinguished Service Award from Montefiore Einstein.