Dr. Michel J. Dodard, M.D. has been involved in medical education since 1980. Dr. Dodard currently serves as the medical director of AHEC (Area Health Education Center) of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He has also served as Director of the University of Miami Family Practice Center and Jefferson Reaves, Sr. Community Health Center, as well as director of the Family Practice Residency Program. For the past eight years he has been the Principal Investigator of a major educational grant to sponsor the training of family physicians in Haiti and build the capacity to develop Family Medicine as a specialty.
His prior experience includes 12 years at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, New York where he worked in several roles including associate director of its Family Practice Residency and director of the Family Health Center. He also was assistant clinical professor of family medicine at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York.
An active member in the Haitian health care community, Dr. Dodard is currently co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad and serves as a member of the Haitian Heritage Month Committee. He is a member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Florida Council for Graduate Medical Education, Association of Directors of Family Practice Residency Programs, Youth 2000-National Registry for Adolescent Health and the U.S. Public Health Service Advocacy Network. Dr. Dodard has also served for nine years as a board member of the Medishare Program and eight years on the board for Reach-Out Miami. In 1999, he became Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program with the Miami-Dade County Health Department, and in 2002, he was elected to the Governing Council of the International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC- now GHEC)
Dr. Dodard’s publications include book chapters on pulmonary diagnoses, insomnia and Tuberculosis. He also co-wrote two articles “The Health Care Delivery Crisis in Haiti” which was published by Family Medicine in October 1997 and “A Volunteer Program in International Health at the University of Miami in Academic Medicine” for Project Medishare in April 2000. In addition, he has delivered numerous presentations at conferences including: “New Trends in Graduate Medical Education in the United States and the World” at the St. Croix International Conference (1998); “Tuberculosis in Haitian Orphanages” at the IHMEC in San Pedro Sula, Honduras (2001); and “Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Haiti” at the IHMEC in Havana, Cuba (2002).
Licensed in New York and Florida, Dr. Dodard completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Urban Family Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, New York and earned his medical degree from the State University of Haiti’s Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. He then interned at the University Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His residency included stints in Internal Medicine at the University Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Family Practice at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, New York .
