Joedrecka Brown Speights is the principal investigator on a two-year project designed to enhance mentorship opportunities and diversity within the national Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
The group’s executive committee awarded the “Quality Mentorship Through STFM” project $20,000 over two years.
As proposed by the STFM groups on minority and multicultural health and Latino faculty, the project has these long-term goals:
- Enhance mentorship opportunities of excellence for STFM members.
- Improve resiliency and retention of underrepresented-in-medicine-minority family medicine faculty members.
- And increase educational and leadership diversity for the STFM.
Brown is an associate professor in the College of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health. She has three co-investigators on this project: Judy Washington, M.D., of New Jersey Institute of Technology, Student Health Services; Evelyn Figueroa, M.D., program director, Family Medicine Residency at University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine; and Edgar Figueroa, M.D., MPH, Student Health Services at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Additional investigators are Y. Monique Davis-Smith, M.D., program director, Navicent Health Family Medicine Residency, and Manuel Idrogo, M.D., Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine.