Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.B.A., Pfeiffer University 1998
  • B.A., Duke University 1989
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health 2007 - 2020
  • Assistant Clinical Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine and Community Health, Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health 2006 - 2007
  • Clinical Associate in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine and Community Health, Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health 2000 - 2006
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • RWJF Culture of Health Awardee Team. Durham County. 2014
  • "BieneSTAR" Grantee Presentation for Annual Board Meeting . the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2009
  • Emerging Leaders in Academic Medicine. Duke University/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2006
  • Phi Delta Kappa International. University of North Carolina Chapter. 1998
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Practical, Timely Lessons for Advancing and Aligning North Carolina's Health Care Transformation Leadership to Address Social Needs awarded by Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust 2022 - 2024
  • Duke Primary Care Transformation Fellowship Program awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration 2018 - 2023
  • Northern Piedmont Community Care-Diabetes Prevention for Pregnant and Post-Partum Women awarded by Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust 2016 - 2019
  • Duke CTSA (UL1) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2018
  • Engaging patients, community, and health system stakeholders to establish PCOR priorities awarded by Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute 2015 - 2017
  • CTSA UL awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2012
  • Pilot Project applying the National Clinical Research Associates model within the Duke Translational Medicine Institute awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2008
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Jones, Quinnette, Melinda Blazar, Tara Blackley, Michelle J. Lyn, and Frederick S. Johnson. “COVID Collaborations: A Physician Assistant Program and Health Department Partnership.” J Physician Assist Educ 33, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 213–15. https://doi.org/10.1097/JPA.0000000000000438.
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    • Simpson, Courtney, Mina Silberberg, Susan T. Hibbard, Michelle J. Lyn, and Gregory Sawin. “Perceived Benefits of Training Clinicians in Community Engagement for a Leadership Development Program.” Fam Med 54, no. 2 (February 2022): 134–38. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2022.648246.
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    • Viera, Anthony J., Jacqueline Barnett, Matthew Case, Carol Epling, Brian Halstater, Michelle Lyn, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, et al. “Partnerships to Care for Our Patients and Communities During COVID-19.” J Am Board Fam Med 34, no. 5 (2021): 1003–9. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.05.210091.
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    • Boulware, L. E., G. B. Harris, P. Harewood, F. F. Johnson, P. Maxson, N. Bhavsar, S. S. Blackwelder, et al. “Democratizing health system data to impact social and environmental health contexts: a novel collaborative community data-sharing model.” Journal of Public Health (Oxford, England) 42, no. 4 (November 2020): 784–92. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdz171.
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    • Silberberg, Mina, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, and Michelle J. Lyn. “What Is Population Health?” Prim Care 46, no. 4 (December 2019): 475–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pop.2019.07.001.
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    • Boulware, L Ebony, and Michelle Lyn. “Who Will Drive the Change? Democratizing Health Data.” American Journal of Public Health 109, no. 4 (April 2019): 547–48. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2019.304985.
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    • Spratt, Susan E., Bryan C. Batch, Lisa P. Davis, Ashley A. Dunham, Michele Easterling, Mark N. Feinglos, Bradi B. Granger, et al. “Methods and initial findings from the Durham Diabetes Coalition: Integrating geospatial health technology and community interventions to reduce death and disability.” J Clin Transl Endocrinol 2, no. 1 (March 2015): 26–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcte.2014.10.006.
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    • Tran, Anh N., India J. Ornelas, Mimi Kim, Georgina Perez, Melissa Green, Michelle J. Lyn, and Giselle Corbie-Smith. “Results from a pilot promotora program to reduce depression and stress among immigrant Latinas.” Health Promot Pract 15, no. 3 (May 2014): 365–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839913511635.
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    • Tran, Anh N., India J. Ornelas, Georgina Perez, Melissa A. Green, Michelle Lyn, and Giselle Corbie-Smith. “Evaluation of Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma (ALMA): a pilot promotora intervention focused on stress and coping among immigrant Latinas.” J Immigr Minor Health 16, no. 2 (April 2014): 280–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-012-9735-y.
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    • Lyn, Michelle J., and Frederick S. Johnson. “Just for Us: in-home care for frail elderly and disabled individuals with low incomes.” N C Med J 72, no. 3 (2011): 205–6.
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    • Cook, Jennifer, J Lloyd Michener, Michelle Lyn, David Lobach, and Fred Johnson. “Practice profile. Community collaboration to improve care and reduce health disparities.” Health Aff (Millwood) 29, no. 5 (May 2010): 956–58. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0094.
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    • Corbie-Smith, Giselle, Susan D. Yaggy, Michelle Lyn, Melissa Green, India J. Ornelas, Tia Simmons, Georgina Perez, and Connie Blumenthal. “Development of an interinstitutional collaboration to support community-partnered research addressing the health of emerging Latino populations.” Acad Med 85, no. 4 (April 2010): 728–35. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181d2b874.
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    • Royal, JaNa, Robin Ali, Michele Lyn, and Susan Yaggy. “Just for us.” N C Med J 71, no. 2 (2010): 182–83.
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    • Michener, J Lloyd, Susan Yaggy, Michelle Lyn, Samuel Warburton, Mary Champagne, MaryAnn Black, Michael Cuffe, et al. “Improving the health of the community: Duke's experience with community engagement.” Acad Med 83, no. 4 (April 2008): 408–13. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181668450.
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    • Sangvai, Devdutta, Michelle Lyn, and Lloyd Michener. “Defining high-performance teams and physician leadership.” Physician Exec 34, no. 2 (2008): 44–51.
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    • Yaggy, Susan D., J Lloyd Michener, Duncan Yaggy, Mary T. Champagne, Mina Silberberg, Michelle Lyn, Fred Johnson, and Kimberly S. H. Yarnall. “Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population.” Gerontologist 46, no. 2 (April 2006): 271–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/46.2.271.
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    • Michener, J Lloyd, Mary T. Champagne, Duncan Yaggy, Susan D. Yaggy, and Katrina M. Krause. “Making a home in the community for the academic medical center.” Acad Med 80, no. 1 (January 2005): 57–61. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200501000-00014.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • COMMFAM 403C: Community Clinic Leadership Elective - Holton Clinic 2023
  • CLP 217: Community Engaged Approaches to Health Improvement 2022
  • COMMFAM 403C: Community Clinic Leadership Elective - Holton Clinic 2022
  • CLP 214: Population Health Management Approaches 2021
  • CLP 217: Community Engaged Approaches to Health Improvement 2021
  • COMMFAM 403C: Community Clinic Leadership Elective - Holton Clinic 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • “Plenary 3 - Charting a Course for Community-Partnered Health Improvement Research: Lessons Learned From the Duke Experience”. “Plenary 3 - Charting a Course for Community-Partnered Health Improvement Research: Lessons Learned From the Duke Experience”. 2015  2015
  • “Outside Four Walls: How the Push Toward Community Healthcare is Creating a New Workforce.”. North Carolina Primary Care Conference. 2014  2014
  • “Durham/Duke Familiar Faces: Archetypal Community Health Puzzle.” . 2014 ACHI National Conference. 2014  2014
  • “Outside Four Walls: How the Push Toward Community Healthcare is Creating a New Workforce”. Cabarrus College of Health Sciences. 2014  2014
  • . “ Preparing advanced practice nurse leaders to meet healthcare demands” . . “ Preparing advanced practice nurse leaders to meet healthcare demands” . 2013  2013
  • Durham County Familiar Faces Forum. Durham County . 2013  2013
  • “ Improving Population Health.” . The Ottawa Hospital Board of Governors. 2013  2013
  • “All Health is Local: Innovations in Managing the Health of Populations.”. 21st Annual Health Forum and the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit. 2013  2013
  • “DHI, BMSF DDC & CMS SEDI: A trio of projects supporting the design, implementation, and evaluation of a population health improvement platform that utilizes real-time spatially enabled data architecture and analytics.” . Joslin Diabetes and Innovation Conference 2013 – Be The Solution. 2013  2013
  • “Improving Health with Our Communities.” . West Virginia Public Health Association 89th Annual Conference – Public Health: West Virginia’s Best Investment. 2013  2013
  • “Improving Health with Our Communities.”. NC State Health Directors Learning Congress. 2013  2013
  • “Outside Four Walls: How the Push Toward Community Healthcare is Creating a New Workforce”. Allied Health Regional Skills Partnership Summit: Getting the Pulse on Healthcare – A New Prescription for the Workforce. 2013  2013
  • “Aging in Place – Bring Care Home: The Just For Us (JFU) Program.” . Durham Conference on Housing: Building Stronger Communities. 2012  2012
  • “Improving Health With Our Community.” . The Community Health Colloquium sponsored by HDR Architects, The University of Ohio and the International Poverty Solutions Collaborative. 2012  2012
  • “Improving Health With Our Community.” Keynote Address. Duke Community Health Day. 2012  2012
  • “Improving Health With Our Community. A Presentation for Panel #4: Community Engagement”. . Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment and . 2011  2011
  • Durham Health Summits . 2009  2009
  • “ ‘Just For Us’– Extending the Medical Home to medically fragile, low-income seniors and disabled adults living in subsidized housing in Durham, NC,” . Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Annual Conference, . 2009  2009
  • “BieneSTAR: A community-university partnership to deliver culturally appropriate mental health services for Latino immigrant children in school-based health clinics.” . American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. 2009  2009
  • “Care Culture and System Redesign-Based Strategies: Community-Engaged Models of Team Care,”. IOM Workshop Series: The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes Strategies That Work. 2009  2009
  • “Durham Health Innovations Poster,” . Poster Presentation. NIH, NCCR Conference: Improving Health WITH Communities: The Role of Community Engagement in Clinical and Translational Research. 2009  2009
  • “Improving Health WITH Our Community,”. Building Bridges of Understanding:. 2009  2009
  • “Medical Homes to Connected Care,” . Presentation for the Duke Patient Advocacy Council. 2009  2009
  • “Taking the message home to older adults: A home care chronic disease prevention and education program for certified nursing assistants.”. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. 2009  2009
  • Prevention, Early Intervention, and Mental Health Treatment Services for Latino Immigrants Provided Through an Integrated SBHC Model,” . National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, Annual Conference. 2008  2008
  • “Health, Home, and Community: The Longitudinal Community Health Experience of the Duke Family Medicine Residency,”. Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Annual Conference. 2008  2008
  • “Improving the Health of Durham,” . Duke Durham Regional Hospital Board Meeting. 2008  2008
  • “Leadership Training Programs,” . Meeting with Ministry of Health, Singapore; Duke- NUS; and SingHealth. 2008  2008
  • “Site Update: Duke Center for Community Research,” . Accelerating the Dissemination and Translation of Clinical Research Into Practice Conference SE Regional CTSA Community Engagement Conference. 2008  2008
  • “Training Promotoras to Prevent Depression and Promote Mental Health: ALMA Project,”. National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH Summit: The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. 2008  2008
  • “The Duke Center for Community Research (DCCR) of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI),”. The North Carolina Central University Department of Psychology and the UNC-Chapel Hill Program on Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes Promoting and Cultivating Health Disparities Research Conference. 2007  2007
  • “Working With Communities to Address Coping and Stress for Latinas in North Carolina,” . Center for Global Initiatives University of North Carolina, Navigating the Global American South Conference: Global Health and Regional Solutions. 2007  2007
  • “The AMC Clinician as Community Activist: Duke’s Health Leadership Program,” . 39th Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference. 2006  2006
  • “Training Residents To Be Change Agents: Preparing for Pay for Performance,” . 39th Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference. 2006  2006
  • “Networking and Relationship Building” . Wake County Healthy Carolinians. 2005  2005
  • “Working with Communities to Improve Health: Educating Clinicians for a New Era in Public Health,” . AAMC Conference of the MD-MPH Education Community: Training Future Physicians to Synthesize Public Health and Medicine. 2005  2005
  • “Partnering for Food: Senior Sweep for Nutrition,” . Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Conference. 2003  2003
  • “Partnering to Bring Healthcare Home: The JUST FOR US Program,”. National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. 2003  2003
  • “The Wellness Partnership,”. 17th Annual CDC Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. 2003  2003
  • “A Brighter Manana: The JUST FOR US Program.” . National Association of Area Agencies on Aging Annual Conference. 2002  2002
  • “From Dust to Trust: Interagency Collaboration to Improve Health in Durham County, NC.” . Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Conference. 2000  2000
  • "Generating Community Support and Involvement." . Voluntary Hospitals of America School-Based Health Centers: Making the Healthy Connection Conference. 1999  1999
  • “Changing the Public High School: One School’s Cooperative Process.”. Southeastern Association of College Admissions Counselors Annual Conference. 1997  1997

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