About Family Medicine

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Optimizing Health for Communities

We are dedicated to providing the best possible care for patients, advancing innovations, and training future leaders in the field.
Our Mission
We are leaders in Family Medicine who transform primary care and optimize health for communities and people at all stages of life. We accomplish this through compassionate relationship-based care, exemplary teaching, cutting-edge research, and promotion of health equity.

Our Core Values

The core values and principles which will guide the Department in the fulfillment of this mission are:

  • Relationships that respect diversity and foster collegiality
  • Integration of biomedical, humanistic and psychosocial principles in teaching, research and patient care
  • Commitment to the principles and practices of continuous quality improvement
  • Collaboration with other specialties and organizations in the pursuit of common goals
  • Advocacy for quality of life for all members of the Department
  • Responsiveness to unmet societal and community needs

Office of the Chair
Phillip E. Rodgers, MD
The George A. Dean, MD Chair of Family Medicine
300 North Ingalls Street, NI4C06
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5435
Phone: 734-615-2688
General Information Email

Faculty Recruitment

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Faculty Directory

Meet our expert team of faculty members.

Giving

Learn how you can support our work advancing the future of family medicine

Annual Newsletters
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Winter 2026 Newsletter

Catch up on the latest updates, stories, and highlights from the Department of Family Medicine. Explore our recent newsletter to see how we're advancing care, education, research, and community impact—together.

Read the Winter 2026 Newsletter
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Spring/Summer 2025 Newsletter

Catch up on the latest updates, stories, and highlights from the Department of Family Medicine. Explore our recent newsletter to see how we're advancing care, education, research, and community impact—together.

Read the Summer 2025 Newsletter
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Winter 2025 Newsletter

Catch up on the latest updates, stories, and highlights from the Department of Family Medicine. Explore our recent newsletter to see how we're advancing care, education, research, and community impact—together.

Read the Winter 2025 Newsletter

Contact Us

Clinical Programs
David C. Serlin, MD
Associate Chair for Clinical Programs
Phone: 734-232-6222

Educational Programs
Margaret L. Dobson, MD
Associate Chair for Educational Programs
Phone: 734-232-6776

Research Programs
Lorraine R. Buis
Associate Chair for Research
Department of Family Medicine
1018 Fuller St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1213

Featured News & Stories

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Health Lab

What’s the latest on 7-OH and kratom availability and addiction care?

The United States Drug Enforcement Agency proposed temporary rescheduling of 7-OH products could remove synthetic opioids from the market, leaving natural leaf kratom available amid a shortage of addiction treatment providers.
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Department News

Family Medicine researcher Brandie Bentley, PhD, MSW, receives national and internal funding to improve maternal health

Assistant Professor Brandie Bentley, Ph.D. of Family Medicine receives national and internal funding focused on improving perinatal care and outcomes for women with disabilities.
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Department News

MYHealth team publishes findings about positive effects of MYHealth youth research program

MYHealth program researchers publish findings about positive effects of the virtual youth research program, noting that those who participate feel a sense of belonging and encouragement to pursue STEM careers.
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Philanthropy News

Mindful gift supports patient well-being

Bob and Debbie Merion are helping share mindfulness-based stress reduction with patients in Michigan Medicine's Integrative Family Medicine Program.
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Department News

Dr. Elham Mahmoudi authors paper selected for honor by Gerontological Society of America

Associate Professor Elham Mahmoudi and her fellow authors have published a paper that was selected by the Gerontological Association of America as a paper of the year in 2026.
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Department News

Professor Diane Harper selected as the Michigan Family Physician of the Year for 2026

Professor Diane M. Harper, MD, MPH, MS, has received several honors, including Physician of the Year for 2026 by the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians, and has been honored as Kansas University School of Medicine with its Distinguished Alumni Award.