Distinguished Lecture on Advancing Health Equity and Community Engagement

Michelle Roett, MD, professor and chair, and clinical chief of family medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, will deliver a Creighton School of Medicine Distinguished Lecture at 5 p.m. CT, 3 p.m. MT, Oct. 2 at the CL and Rachel Werner Center for Health Sciences Education, Room 407B. A cocktail reception will immediately follow in the Werner Center fifth-floor lobby.

Roett will address the topic of community engagement to advance health equity. The free lecture is open to the public. CE credits will be available. Registration is required. Livestream will be available.

The lecture will kick off the annual Creighton School of Medicine Leadership Retreat, scheduled for Oct. 3 and 4 in Omaha, for Omaha and Phoenix deans and department chairs. The retreat will focus on health equity and reviewing a draft of the school’s health equity strategic plan. Development of this plan was led by the University’s Institute for Population Health.

Roett is the founding director of the Georgetown University Center for Health Equity, director of D.C. Area Health Education Center for GUMC, and co-medical director of Health Outreach for Youth and Adults (HOYA) Clinic, a student-run clinic for homeless families.
She is the co-chair of the Racial Justice Committee for Change, focused on improving racial equity in education, clinical care and leadership across schools and programs on the GUMC campus to better achieve Georgetown’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and to address systemic racism as a social determinant of health.

She is also chair of the GUMC Faculty Development Subcommittee on Mentoring, focused on creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for career development, belonging and success of new faculty. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, completed residency and community health fellowship training with Georgetown Family Medicine, and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.