Innovative Partnerships
Community Communications Program
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences has established a unique Community Communications
Program with a goal to create systems to recruit under-represented populations for training,
mentoring and research participation 
The program director, Dr. Michelle Terry is a Pediatrician and a Clinician Educator at the UW SOM
and CHRMC. She is an active staff physician who works in community clinics in Seattle and Kent,
Washington. Dr. Terry has extensive mentoring experience with minority students and faculty members.
Since 2002 she has been a Mentor in the College Faculty Program of the UW SOM where she chairs the
African American Mentoring Network.
Director:
Michelle Terry, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
UW Physicians, Pediatrics