LEADS Mission Statement: We challenge medical students to think broadly, to act deliberately and creatively to affect and improve health as physicians, citizens and community leaders....
Program Objectives:
Promote awareness of the social and cultural antecedents of health and illness.
Address barriers to care and disparities in health
Promote diversity at the School of Medicine
Highlight the role of physicians' in promoting the health of communities.
The success of our program relies on three principle factors:
Providing students with a community within the medical school that will focus on service to the underserved.
Providing students close, active, and ongoing mentorship by exceptional physician role models.
Training students in leadership and advocacy and inspiring them to assume roles beyond traditional clinical service.
Our goal is to empower students with the vision and skills necessary to address currently unmet needs head-on and to create effective change where change is needed.
We welcome your interest in the LEADS Program!
Mark Earnest, MD, PhD, Co-Director
Shale Wong, MD, MSPH, Co-Director
Acknowledgement of Funding: This project is a collaboration between the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Section of Academic General Pediatrics. It is funded primarily by the Colorado Health Foundation with additional support from Richard Krugman, MD, Dean of the CU School of Medicine.
