J. Lloyd Michener, MD
J. Lloyd Michener, MD, is professor and chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine, and director of the Duke Center for Community Research.
He is a member of the board of the Association of Academic Medical Colleges, the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, and the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors.
Michener is co-chair of the NIH’s Community Engagement Steering Committee, a member of the CDC Foundation Working Group on Public Health and Medical Education and the National Institutes of Health Fogarty/Ellison Fellowship Program Selection Committee, and director of the Duke/CDC program in primary care and public health of the American Austrian Foundation -- Open Medical Institute.
Michener is past president of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, and is past chair of the Council of Academic Societies of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
As chair of the department, he leads the family medicine, prevention research, occupational and environmental medicine, community health, clinical informatics, physician assistant, and doctor of physical therapy programs.
Michener has played a leadership role in system redesign at Duke, including the expansion of the physician assistant program, and the development of the masters program in clinical leadership, a joint program of the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Business, Law, and the Institute of Public Policy.
Michener has focused on finding ways of making health care work better through teams, community engagement, and practice redesign. He has overseen the obesity and chronic disease prevention programs of the Kate B. Reynolds Trust, a program designed to lower chronic disease rates in low-income areas across North Carolina, and the obesity prevention programs of the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund.
A native of Oakland, California, Michener earned his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1974 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1978. He came to Duke as a resident in 1978, receiving the national Mead Johnson Award in Family Medicine in his senior year. He went on to become a Kellogg Fellow, after which he joined the Duke faculty in 1982. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Alpha Omega Alpha honor societies.
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