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Latonya Riddle-Jones, MD
SECRETARY CANDIDATE
Dr. Riddle-Jones is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine. She knew that medicine was her calling at a young age due to early interactions with the healthcare system and the care of her younger brother. Growing up in Inkster, Michigan, her brother was taken to a community hospital that could not meet her brothers’ emergent medical needs, and he had to be airlifted to a major academic hospital 30 minutes away. She observed the care of children with multiple medical needs from the outpatient clinical setting to the intensive care units by the age of 7. She also observed a severe lack of diversity in the healthcare staff, especially the medical students, residents, and physicians, which has greatly influenced her current work.
Her studies in Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University, Human Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have equipped her with the tools needed to approach healthcare in the 21st century. Dr. Riddle –Jones has also completed the HIV Clinician Scholars Program, Leadership in Health Policy Program certification with the Society of General Internal Medicine (LEAHP) and the Midwest Fellowship for Primary Care Champions (MFPCC) at the University of Illinois – Chicago (UIC) in the Department of Family Medicine sponsored by HRSA.
She is focused on using and teaching health systems science to medical students and residents to empower a new generation of physicians and clinical leaders to tackle health inequities and injustice to improve the overall health of our nation. In addition to being an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, she is the medical director of Corktown Health Center, Michigan's first LGBTQ focused health center as serves as the Vice-Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for WSUSOM Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Riddle is also a member of SEMCME Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Her primary clinical and research interests are in preventative health, health equity and health literacy in education. She serves as associate medical director of the Tri-County Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) which provides free and low cost screening, diagnostic, and access to treatment services for breast, cervical, and colon cancer.
She is a proud mother of two children and often states that her children have demonstrated to her that accurate health messages and education can be taught and understood at very early ages. Education empowers people, and it is Dr. Riddle’s goal to empower those that she teaches and serves to evoke a domino effect leading to health equity for future generations.
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