On May 15, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved promotions for more than 200 Medical School faculty members. Their new appointments take effect Aug. 25, 2025.

Many of our graduating medical students brought strong leadership skills with them to campus. Others have developed them through a flexible curriculum that has prepared them to be leaders and change agents in medicine. How, when and why they demonstrate leadership varies, but the featured speaker at the Medical School Commencement Ceremony on May 16 in Hill Auditorium told 163 graduating medical students that their leadership is welcome during a time of great turmoil in health care.

Shirlene Obuobi, M.D., is a cardiologist, cartoonist and author and shares her advice for the next generation of doctors.

Louito C. Edje, M.D., MHPE, FAAP, is recipient of the ELUM Compass Award, a special award given as part of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program’s 30th anniversary celebration. ELAM is a prestigious national leadership fellowship for women which aims to increase and sustain the number and impact of women in leadership positions in the health sciences.

Lives are being saved, and many others are being changed dramatically, by current GLP-1 therapies like tirzepatide, which has helped many patients treat type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea, and also lose weight. It has been a long road from bench research to clinical trials to the health care market, but patients are now benefitting more than ever, according to a leading scientist who served as the keynote speaker for the second annual Dean’s Lecture and Bold Science Symposium, “Metabolism Research from Bench to Bedside.” Daniel Skovronsky, M.D., Ph.D., chief scientific officer and executive vice president of science and technology at Eli Lilly and Company and president of Research Laboratories and Lilly Immunology, was the Dean’s Lecturer on April 14 at the North Campus Research Complex Dining Hall.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science named it's 2024 fellows, which included seven people associated with Michigan Medicine

Ansley Conchola, MD, PhD, shares her experience in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Michigan.

Margeaux Anahid Naughton, MD, is one of the Assistant Program Directors for the Pediatrics Residency Program. Dr. Naughton is the May 2025 Featured Educator.

Nicole Jerome is a PhD Candidate in Cancer Biology.