Kim S Griswold, MD

Kim Griswold, MD, is a Buffalo family physician whose work has centered on caring for vulnerable and underserved patients. At the University at Buffalo, she is listed as professor emerita of family medicine and psychiatry, with clinical and teaching interests that include refugee and immigrant health, trauma, and integrated medical and behavioral health care. UB also describes her clinical practice as focusing on comprehensive care for seriously mentally ill adults.

She has been closely involved in asylum and refugee-health work in Western New York. UB’s Human Rights Initiative identifies her as medical director and notes the program’s role in forensic evaluations for survivors of torture seeking asylum, and a separate UB alumni profile says she earned her medical degree from UB in 1994 and has spent much of her career working with mentally ill adults and immigrant and refugee populations.