Joseph H. Stephens, MD

Joseph Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a member of the Global Health and Clinical Skills Faculty at Montefiore Medical Center. He is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine Residency Program at Montefiore. He enjoys practicing medicine in primary care and inpatient settings both in the Bronx and Kisoro, Uganda. His interests include helping learners to interpret and apply clinical research to patient care, teaching clinical reasoning, and promoting community oriented primary care. Sepp has worked with the NGO Doctor’s for Global Health since 2016, supporting and strengthening their village health worker program and related community health initiatives in Kisoro.  His research has focused on hypertension and other chronic diseases in rural Uganda, from household level universal screening to community and hospital-based management.