Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, MS
mschenk@med.wayne.edu


Departmental Role

I joined the faculty in 1991 as a clinician educator in the Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences family medicine and occupational medicine residency programs and as a research scientist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in the Division of Epidemiology. I then became Director of Clinical Curriculum Development for the School of Medicine in 1997. In this role, I chaired the LCME institutional self-study for the clinical education program. In 1998 and from 2005 to 2007 I helped guide the LCME accreditation process as Interim Associate Dean of Academic and Student Programs and member of the LCME steering committee. 

 I was asked to provide leadership for the faculty as interim Chair in 1998 and in 2000 was appointed Chair.   The 2005 internal review of the department resulted in my reappointment as Chair.  In 2006, the WSUSOM requested merging the Department of Community Medicine and the faculty of the Center for Health Effectiveness into the Department of Family Medicine and the new Department of Family Medicine and Public health Sciences was born and I was appointed the inaugural Chair. 
I am also the Chair of the WSU Physician Group (WSUPG-non-profit faculty practice plan) Department of Family Medicine and was elected Secretary of UPG in 2007.  The UPG is a multidisciplinary physician group and represents a merger of 15 practice plans.  

In 2007, we received accreditation of our new WSU sponsored family medicine residency program with Crittenton Hospital Medical Center as our primary hospital partner.  This new program is exciting and will further strengthen our outstanding graduate education program.  With my education and experience in clinical practice, health planning and administration, and cancer research, I am able to bring expertise and leadership to a wide scope of activities both within the Department and to outside faculty and organizations. The DFMPHS actively seeks internal and external collaborations that further our education and research mission.

Education

Grand Valley University, Chemistry, BS, 1977
Wayne State University School of Medicine, MD, 1983
University of Michigan School of Public Health, M.P.H., Health Planning and Administration, 1985
University of Michigan Rackam School of Graduate Studies, Industrial Health , MS, 1993


Training and Experience
Internship, Wayne State University Department of Family Practice, 1984
Residency, St. Mary’s Family Practice Residency, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1984-86
Fellowship, Academic Family Medicine, Occupational Health, Department of Family Practice State University of New York at Buffalo, 1991
Fellowship, Medical Education Research, Association of American Medical Colleges, 1997-98
Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women, MCP Hahnemann University, 2000-01

Awards

1997, 2001 College Teaching Award
Wayne State University School of Medicine

1997 President’s Exceptional Service Award (awarded by President Reid for service
related to LCME accreditation process)

1997 Detroit Academy of Medicine (elected)

1998, 2003, The Best Doctors in America
2005 Family Practice
Woodward and White, Inc

2006 The Leonard Tow 2006 Humanism in Medicine Award
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

2006 Inaugural Faculty Member, The Gold Humanism Honor Society (awarded by students)
Wayne State University School of Medicine

Current Funded Projects:

PI: Grants for Establishment of Departments of Family Medicine (Co-PI: Kendra Schwartz, MD, MSPH) Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health Professions Direct Cost:  832,733 (competing continuation-through 8/31/08)

PI:  “Encouraging Physicians to Practice in Michigan Rural Communities” and Co-PI (PI: Patrick Bridge, PhD), “Evaluating Strategies to Increase and Monitor Physician Practice in Rural Michigan Communities” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Direct Cost:  325,000 (through 8/31/09)

Primary Research Interests

Education research including medical student education and faculty development.

Cancer epidemiology with an emphasis on populations research, specifically, cancer etiology with an emphasis on occupational and environmental exposures, genetic-environmental interactions, family history of cancer, cancer control, and cancer survivorship and work issues.


Selected Publications

Schenk M, Popp SM, Neale VA. Environmental Medicine Content in Medical School Curricula. Acad Med 71:499-501, 1996.Fryzek JP, Garabrant DH, Harlow SD, Severson RK, Gillespie BW,

Schenk M, Severson RK, Pawlish SK. The Risk of Subsequent Pancreas Cancer in Patients with Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma. Cancer 82:1672-6, 1998.

Schenk M, Popp S, Bridge PD, Gallagher R, Petrusa ER, Frank RR. Effectiveness of an Occupational and Environmental Medicine Curriculum as Indicated by The Evaluation of Medical Student Performance on an Objective Structured Clinical Examination. JOEM (41): 954-959, 1999.

Bridge PD, Schenk M, Popp S. Evaluating a Primary Care Vertically Integrated Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education. Family Medicine, 32 (7): 525-527, 2000.

Schenk M, Schwartz AG, O’Neal E, Kinnard M, Greenson, JK, Fryzek JP, Ying GS, Garabrandt DH. Familial Risk of Pancreas Cancer, JNCI, 93: 640-644, 2001.

Roth L, Schenk M. Developing clinical teachers and their organizations for the future of medical education. Medical Education, 35 (5): 428-429, 2001.

Neale AV, Schwartz KL, Schenk M, Roth LM. Scholarly development of clinician faculty using evidence-based medicine as an organizing theme. Medical Teacher, 25 (4): 442-447, 2003.

Bradley CJ, Neumark D, Bednarek HL, Schenk M.  Short-term effects of Breast Cancer on labor market attachment results from a longitudinal study.  Journal of Health Economics, 24(1): 137-60, 2005.

Roth L, Severson R, Probst J, Monsur J, Markova T, Kushner S, Schenk M. Exploring physician and staff perceptions of the learning environment in ambulatory residency clinics. Family Medicine. 38(3):177-184, 2006.

Presentations:

Current interests include topics related to encouraging medical students from rural/small town areas to participate in clinical experiences in rural/small town areas resulting in selecting family medicine as their specialty of choice and eventual practice in similar areas, development and implementation of evidence-based cancer screening guidelines, and the role of the family physician in cancer survivorship care.  I am a member of the planning committee and a speaker for the Great Lakes Update in Family Medicine program which just completed it’s 19th year.