Dr. Joedrecka Brown Speights to serve as Interim Chair of Florida State University's Department of Family Medicine & Rural Health (FMRH)

Effective April 2018, Dr. Joedrecka Brown Speights will serve as Interim Chair of FMRH. Her passion is to reduce health care disparities and she helped develop programs for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine on ways to teach health care providers to reduce health care disparities, promote mentorship, and achieve health equity. This past year, she was chosen as an Inaugural 2017 Fellow for the Leaders for Health Equity Fellowship at George Washington University and was recently awarded FSU’s prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award for her record of scholarly and service work dedicated to the underserved.