Women in Medicine
From clinics to classrooms, women physicians, residents, and med students lead with purpose and inspire those around them every day. Join us in honoring women in medicine this September during #WIMMonth.
Candace Smith-King, MD
Candace Smith-King, the vice president of academic affairs for Corewell Health, shares her perspective with Dean Sousa. Her years of experience in Grand Rapids as an alumnus and physician give perspective to being a woman in medicine.
Laura Kelsey, MD
Laura Kelsey, MD is a surgeon in West Michigan who is focused on venous disease and a longtime member of the College of Human Medicine alumni organization. She shared an essay in the September 15 Dean's Update.
Heidi Burns, MD
Heidi Burns, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Michigan, writes about her time at the College of Human Medicine, ranging from Ghana to the NIH and into the academy. 
Adrianne Haggins, MD
Adrianne Haggins is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, who works on issues of health disparities among other scholarly interests.
Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira, PhD
Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira, an assistant professor in the Colleges of Human Medicine and Engineering, opened her own lab to study promising new therapies that hunt down cancer cells and kill them with radioactive isotopes.
Eneka Lamb
Eneka Lamb, a third-year student, took a break from a surgical rotation in Midland to talk about her interest in rural medicine and her recent election as chair of the National Rural Health Assoication's Student Constituency Group.
Ade Olomu,MD, MS, FMCP, FACP
Ade Olomu, the Blanch B. and Frederick C. Swartz Endowed Professor of Medicine and chief of the College of Human Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine, recently received the Society of Internal Medicine’s 2023 Herbert W. Nickens Award. The Society gives the annual award to those who have “demonstrated exceptional commitment to cultural diversity in medicine or to improving minority health.”
Kathy Steece-Collier, PhD
A new startup, CavGene Therapeutics, Inc., will further research initiated by Kathy Steece-Collier, PhD, a professor of Translational Neuroscience in the College of Human Medicine. For decades, she has led an effort to reduce or eliminate a frequent side effect of a drug commonly prescribed for Parkinson’s patients.
Orezime Uyeh
Fourth-year student Rezi Uyeh, a 27-year old Nigerian American artist, combined her passion for children, health care, teaching and mentorship to write and illustrate her first book, “Girls for Medicine."
Stacey Missmer, ScD
Stacey Missmer, ScD, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology, discusses a global genetic study that shows link between endometriosis, other debilitating pain conditions. Missmer is the U.S. leader of IEGC for the second phase of the study.
Read about Stacey's research and study