2025 ADFM Annual Conference

Michelle Roett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is a Professor and Chair, and Clinical Chief of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. She is the Founding Director of the Georgetown University Center for Health Equity, Director of DC 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. As a former residency director at the MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program at MedStar Medical Group Family Medicine at Fort Lincoln, she sees adult and pediatric patients, and continues to precept residents and students in outpatient and inpatient settings. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, completed residency and Community Health fellowship training with Georgetown Family Medicine, and Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She practices integrated behavioral health, women’s health, preventive care, newborn, pediatric, adult, and geriatric care with both outpatient and inpatient medicine. She teaches first through fourth year medical students and serves as a health equity research mentor for medical students, undergraduates, and postdoctoral research fellows. Her interests are racial justice, care of marginalized groups, community partnerships and engagement, eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity, interprofessional education and student recruitment to primary care, faculty development, inclusive excellence, women’s health, chronic diseases, and population health.