Mary Fessler

University of Michigan Medical School

The University of Michigan Medical School is a proud part of a world-renowned academic institution recognized for some of the top-ranked schools in the United States. The U-M Medical School boasts nearly 3,000 faculty across 21 clinical and eight basic science departments. Collaboration across many disciplines sets the stage for innovation and gives the U-M Medical School a strategic advantage when it comes to education, research and patient care. The school is a crucial part of Michigan Medicine, the University's academic medical center. 170 new physicians graduate annually from the U-M Medical School, and hundreds more hold fellowships, complete residencies, and engage in graduate and postdoctoral studies. Plus each year the members of the Medical School's Faculty Group Practice serve tens of thousands of patients at the three hospitals and over 40 health centers that make up the clinical enterprise of Michigan Medicine. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the U-M Medical School among the very best in the U.S., and the Medical School research enterprise is among the top institutions in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. The U-M Medical School is committed to a single mission: To educate students, physicians and biomedical scholars and to provide a spectrum of comprehensive knowledge, research, patient care and service of the highest quality to the people of the state of Michigan and beyond.