Dr. Michael Dodard

Michel Dodard, MD, F.A.A.F.P. is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the State University of Haiti in 1974, and after a residency in Family Medicine in Yonkers, N.Y., he completed a fellowship in Urban Family Medicine at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York.

Dr. Dodard has been actively involved in academic Family Medicine since 1980 and was Director of the Family Practice Residency Program at Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1988 to 2000.

He is currently the Director of the Office of Community Health Affairs and the Area Health Education Center Program. In addition, is the principal investigator of the UM Haiti Project, which has introduced and promoted the Specialty of Family Medicine in Haiti. Dr. Dodard’s publications include articles and book chapters on pulmonary nodules, insomnia and tuberculosis.

His major interests are intercultural medicine, community health and health workforce development in resource poor countries. Dr. Dodard has been active nationally in academic global health. He was a two term member of the Board of Directors of the Global Health Educational Consortium. He recently was the co-chair of a national conference on Immigrant Health.