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About Family Medicine
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
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5435
Phone: 734-615-2688
Fax: 734-615-2687
Email: [email protected]
Annual Newsletters
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
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
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
Email: [email protected]
Educational Programs
Margaret L. Dobson, MD
Associate Chair for Educational Programs
Phone: 734-232-6776
Email: [email protected]
Research Programs
Lorraine R. Buis
Associate Chair for Research
Department of Family Medicine
1018 Fuller St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1213
1018 Fuller St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1213
Email: [email protected]
Featured News & Stories
Department News
Family Medicine researchers find clinicians question Black expectant moms more about cannabis use than white moms
Department of Family Medicine researchers examined how often clinicians talked to women about cannabis use during pregnancy and breastfeeding, finding that they brought up the topic of cannabis use more often with Black expectant moms than white moms.
Health Lab Podcast
7-OH, kratom and the emerging public health crisis for sale across the country
A patient, his doctor and other experts warn of dangers of 7-OH, which is touted as a derivative of kratom and is widely available, but packs far more opioid danger.
Philanthropy News
Shipt gift helps address food insecurity
A gift from Shipt supports Michigan Medicine's Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, in developing Nutrition Value Pathways to expand access to Food is Medicine programs and help address food insecurity.
Department News
Family Medicine faculty, residents and students showcase innovative studies at Michigan Family Medicine Research Day
U-M Department of Family Medicine faculty, residents and students participated in the recent Michigan Family Medicine Research Day. The event features oral and poster presentions of emerging work that come out of the primary care and family medicine research field.
UMich Med Mosaic
Beyond the White Coat: Finding Your Voice at the Patient’s Bedside
In this episode of UMich Med Mosaic, host Mackenzie Kay speaks with MD students Josh Chen and Gabriel Culian about what it feels like to step onto the hospital wards for the first time. They reflect on their earliest patient encounters, the transition from standardized patients to real clinical settings, and the role medical students play in building trust, explaining care plans and supporting patients and families. They also discuss witnessing serious illness, grief and life-changing conversations, while exploring how early clinical experiences shape confidence, empathy and the kind of physicians they hope to become.
Department News
MDisability’s Disability Health Elective expands to four weeks
MDisability's Disability Health Elective is expanding to four weeks beginning in June.
