{"id":467,"date":"2022-09-30T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/?p=467"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T09:35:08","slug":"lara-jirmanus-md-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/lara-jirmanus-md-mph\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-434\" src=\"http:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lara-jirmanus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"188\" \/>Dr. Lara Jirmanus is\u00a0a practicing family physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Fellow at the FXB Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. After graduating from University of Massachusetts Medical School, she completed family medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center, a fellowship in Global Women\u2019s Health at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, and an MPH at HSPH. Dr. Jirmanus served as chief resident in Family Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) in Lebanon. She taught a global health and social medicine course at AUB Medical School and an interdisciplinary seminar on the Syrian refugee crisis at Harvard University. Her recent research includes a community based participatory research project and a health needs assessment for a primary care health center in Lebanon and a study to evaluate impacts of immigration policy on primary healthcare utilization in the United States. She also served as medical consultant on a national study to evaluate the quality of service delivery in the primary healthcare network in Lebanon, in collaboration with colleagues at Harvard University and the Lebanese American University. For this study, Dr. Jirmanus designed an instrument to assess facility-level health care services and advised the adaptation of study instruments and data interpretations in the Lebanese medical context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lara Jirmanus is\u00a0a practicing family physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Fellow at the FXB Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. After graduating from University of Massachusetts Medical School, she completed family medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center, a<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/lara-jirmanus-md-mph\/\" class=\"more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-experts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantelemed.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}