The Impacting HOPE Collaborative analyzes and enhances systems to increase health equity, opportunity, pathways, and education for children and families in Michigan to create community wealth, advance physician diversity, and improve patient outcomes.
It was founded in 2019 by pediatric surgeons Dr. Erika Newman and Dr. Erin Perrone.
A true culture of health cannot exist without people of all backgrounds and perspectives having access to and representation within the physician workforce. Physician diversity is essential to begin to transform health culture, empower scientists and researchers under-represented in academic medicine and improve delivery of quality care for Americans.
Reducing disparities requires proactive investment in the talented aspiring physicians who are denied acceptance to medical schools because, on paper, they are not as qualified as their well-resourced peers. The mission of the HOPE Collaborative is to provide supports to systematically increase the number of physicians and researchers from Michigan communities of economic need where there is a shortage of quality healthcare. Only 5% of medical school matriculants are members of families from the lowest economic quintile, while a full 24% are from the top 5% of income earners.
The Michigan HOPE Collaborative exists to address these specific needs by supporting core student success services, professional development opportunities, and much-needed facilitated group learning. We are building a contemporary proactive framework to connect and expand resources and partner with local and national community agencies, public health officials, school systems, and programming at the University of Michigan Medical School and Michigan Medicine to equip current and future HOPE Scholars to achieve Excellence Beyond Limits. Together we can make transformational investments in the success of diverse physicians that will pay dividends to the citizens of Michigan for generations to come.
The HOPE Collaborative and Department of Surgery host an annual symposium to drive action to meet pressing health, social and advocacy needs in medicine and our communities in Michigan. The event brings together experts in the fields of academic medicine, social justice and public education to unify through conversation, strategy groups and creative workshops. Faculty members, students, health professionals and community advocates are all welcome to attend this public event.
The HOPE Symposium, hosted by the HOPE Collaborative at Michigan Medicine, brings together education leaders, medical experts, students and families who want to learn more, do more and commit to action together to create social transformation.
This year, the symposium's theme was "The Time is Now: Action and HOPE for Health, Wealth, and Community Building." Thought leaders, physicians, educators and students gathered to share ideas and workshop solutions to the challenges we face in creating a diverse pipeline to medicine.
The U-M Medical School Department of Surgery and its Michigan Promise initiative support a longitudinal investment in a diverse faculty and the success and well-being of residents and future surgeons at Michigan Medicine.
The University of Michigan Medical School, champions of our future doctors and co-developers of our Michigan HOPE Scholars pre-medical enrichment curriculum.
The Doctors of Tomorrow program partners Detroit magnet school students from underrepresented communities with University of Michigan faculty members and medical students.
The Office of Health Equity and Inclusion (OHEI) leads efforts to empower children in our communities and collaborates in outreach events, including the Youth Summit at the Big House.
The University of Michigan School of Education and the School at Marygrove, a landmark P-20 Cradle-to-Career Campus offering preschool-post secondary students and families high quality education, wraparound services, college and career preparation and community engagement programs.
The Edith S. Briskin/Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation, which supports equality initiatives in the sciences and arts.
Make a gift to join our mission and support the areas of highest need. Your generosity will directly support and propel students served by the Michigan HOPE Collaborative to new levels of equity and innovation.
Ph.D. Research Professor
Associate Director
Associate Professor of Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Medical Director, UMMG
