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From left, UM President Julio Frenk, Jeri Wolfson, and Miller School Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt at the launch event for a new initiative that will help spread the DOCS model to other medical schools.

MIAMI, Fla. (March 2, 2016) — In an effort to showcase its innovative educational model of providing quality health care to underserved communities, the Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Department of Community Service (DOCS) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has launched a new initiative to share its work on the national stage.

Disseminating the Model, a comprehensive website designed to spread the DOCS model to other medical schools, was unveiled at the recent event “Creating Connections: Celebrating New DOCS Initiatives,” which also served as an opportunity to recognize the many DOCS connections in the community. Read the full story

On location in Winston-Salem: Maya Angelou is interviewed in her home by Ali Habashi (kneeling). Seated on the couch are Ed Talavera and Christina Delphus, associate director of the Arnold Center.

Legendary poet Maya Angelou, whose powerful words have inspired generations and been read before audiences of schoolchildren, politicians, presidents, and even an archbishop, has lent her distinctive voice to a University of Miami initiative that helps the underprivileged.

Angelou will soon be featured in a film project about the Miller School of Medicine’s Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Department of Community Service (DOCS), speaking generously in support of the student-run program that organizes and staffs free health fairs across South Florida. Read the full story