Elizabeth Katz
Katz is the science writer/communicator with the Department of Family Medicine and the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center at the University of Michigan. She helps to promote research conducted by members of both the department and the RRTC. She also provides editorial assistance for Annals of Family Medicine, the top-ranking family medicine journal in the country, which is edited by members of U-M's Department of Family Medicine.
Department News
Asst. Professor Tyler G. James amps up his research knowledge with MEL-STaR training program
Tyler G. James, Ph.D., MCHES, has been accepted into the MEL-STaR program, through the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. He plans to use the health informatics methods training for application in his study of CHARGE Syndrome.
Department News
MDisability continues to engage with the local and greater metro Detroit community
MDisability continues to participate in community events, both past and in the future. This story details the program's activities.
Department News
MDisability summer interns present disability-related work to Family Medicine researchers
MDisability summer interns present their final projects to Family Medicine research faculty.
Department News
Noah Garber, MD, selected as the new MDisability Disability Health Fellow for 2025-2026
MDisability has selected Noah Garber, MD, as its new Disability Health Fellow
Department News
U-M Medical School student Caleb Ernst explores career paths with MDisability training
University of Michigan Medical School student Caleb R.D. Ernst explores his medical career options by participating in MDisability's Disability Health Elective.
Department News
Family Medicine researchers publish study findings that examined patients’ perspectives on newborn drug testing
University of Michigan Dept. of Family Medicine researchers publish a paper describing the perceptions and opinions of people who have recently given birth about newborn drug testing.
Department News
Mixed Methods Program update: Introducing the research analyst team
The Mixed Methods Program within the Department of Family Medicine introduces its qualitative analyst team.
Health Lab
Researchers develop enhanced communication framework for cancer clinics
Researchers have proposed an enhanced model of communication focusing not only on what is said in the clinic, but also nonverbal communication of the doctor and how doctors in turn interpret patients’ nonverbal cues.
Health Lab
Gaps seen in stillbirth bereavement care among U.S. hospitals
American hospitals vary greatly in what they offer to birthing parents when a stillbirth occurs during labor or delivery.
Health Lab
Mental health, substance abuse treatment facilities don't provide communication access to Deaf, Hard of Hearing patients
These services, researchers found, were largely inaccessible to people who use sign language, discriminating against already ‘severely marginalized’ population in the United States.
