Dr. Margaret Dobson, MD is a highly skilled compassionate and focused Family Physician, executive leader and educator. She is foremost a clinician, spending the first 10 years of her clinical life balancing care of patients across the life cycle in her continuity clinic, in home-based care and while teaching on an in-patient resident service. She no longer rounds in the hospital, with her last call week in December of 2022 but conitnues with a very busy longitudinal clinical practice. She has a long-standing interest in coaching in medical education, spending time during her academic fellowship year as a coach during an initial pilot for GME coaching immediately after her graduation. This work and project launched two major areas of work for her in medical education - coaching, and direct mentorship and support for trainees. She was the residency Program Director at the University of Michigan from 2013-2018. During her time as residency director, she permanently expanded the training cohort to 13 residents per year in Family Medicine, engaged with the UCSF transformational programs around "clinic first" in Family Medicine training. From 2018-2022 she was committed to and engaged in the UME space as a clinical educator in the Doctoring course, as a medical student coach and as an Assistant Course Director for Doctoring. Through this work she supported the transition of the Doctoring curriculum to include expanded content looking at structural inequities and the social and structural determinants of health and was supportive of faculty development around the application of trauma informed practices in clinical care and in education. She also was tasked with developing interventions for students needing additional support. Also, during this time, she was a co-director of the Family Medicine Residency Wellness Curriculum, teaching content including self-compassion, positive psychology construct and working at the structural level to improve the lives of residents in training. From June 2022- September 2023 she was the interim chair for the Department of Family medicine.

Dr Margaret Dobson is known institutionally as an exceptionally thoughtful and insightful colleague, who asks and seeks to understand best practices in creating a more just, more robust and more integrated clinical practice. In her work in medical education and leadership, she keeps patients and their families at the core of everything she does. With that in mind she has a particular interest in trauma informed approaches - including trauma informed care, trauma informed pedagogy, and has some work underway to understand the efficacy of faculty development focused on the integration of these two related and important philosophical approaches impacting medical education. She has an interest in interventions to improve clinician wellbeing, including those centered on positive psychology constructs, and those centered on small incremental improvements in the clinical practice environment. She recently piloted group coaching to support mid-career faculty, using integral coaching techniques. She has not explicitly researched professionalism interventions but is curious about how to support trainees and faculty in difficulty, including those facing professionalism concerns. In her intergeneration practice, she is engaged in best practices to support "grandparenting" as she sees the real-life impact on families and communities when grandparents are called to act again as parents to their grandchildren, most frequently when she middle generation is impacted by substance use, abuse of overdose.