Dr. Stone is Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Director of Health Equity Initiatives of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Stone is an academic general internist and infectious disease specialist who has been a practicing primary care physician and HIV/AIDS physician for more than 30 years.



Dr. Stone is a nationally recognized expert on HIV/AIDS and is the author of numerous publications on HIV care and policy, including co-editor of the book HIV in U.S. Communities of Color; which was published in its second edition in 2021. Her research focuses on disparities in HIV care by race/ethnicity and gender, and strategies for optimizing the care of the diverse patients with HIV.  Recently, Dr. Stone’s work has also focused on COVID-19 inequities; she served as Senior Advisor to the BWH COVID Equity Response Team in 2020-2022. Dr. Stone’s scholarship also examines strategies for advancing cancer care equity, diversity in healthcare, healthcare leadership, challenges in primary care, and innovations in residency training.

Dr. Stone spent the majority of her career at the Massachusetts General Hospital where she was Director of the Primary Care Residency Program, Associate Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Director of the Women’s AIDS Program for many years. Prior to her current roles at the Brigham, Dr. Stone was the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital.



Dr. Stone has received many awards for her career contributions, including the Elnora Rhodes Award for exceptional contributions to patient care, education and research in primary care from the Society of General Internal Medicine in 2012, and in 2020-2021, she was awarded the W. Lester Henry Award from the American College of Physicians for advancing diversity in medicine and access to care, the Massachusetts Medical Society’s LGBTQ Health Award for advancing LGBTQ health, the Brigham Physician Organization (BWPO) Pillar Award for Outstanding Achievements in Faculty Development and Diversity, and the Harold Amos Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Stone received her MD from Yale University School of Medicine and completed her residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve - University Hospitals of Cleveland. She completed a health services research fellowship at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and completed her infectious disease fellowship at the Boston University School of Medicine program.

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