Joanna Michel, PhD in Medical Ethnobotany

Associate Director of Urban Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Medicine
1819 West Polk Street
COM-West Room 150
Chicago, IL
USA 60612

Biographical Sketch: Joanna is a medical ethnobotanist with additional training in herbalism, public health, agroecology, and medical education. She is currently the Associate Director of the Urban Medicine Program, a unique curriculum that gets medical students engaged in underserved communities in Chicago for all four years of medical school. She also teaches classes in alternative medicine, traditional medicine, and public health. Internationally her interests lie in the ethics of medicinal plant research with indigenous communities.

Papers:
3100.0 Uic's urban medicine program's longitudinal community rotation: Preparing physicians to practice in urban underserved communities