Annals of Family Medicine Announces 2 New Associate Editors

doi:10.1370/afm.2706

We are delighted to welcome José E. Rodríguez and Therese Zink to our team!

José E. Rodríguez, MD, FAAFP is the Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Utah and Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He also serves as Associate Medical Director at the Redwood Health Center. Dr Rodríguez has taken a strong role in advancing institutional goals for health equity, diversity, and inclusion. Within his department, he has served on the diversity committee as well as on various recruitment committees supporting focused recruitment of underrepresented ethnic and racial minority (URM) faculty and residents.

Therese Zink, MD, MPH, is a board-certified family physician with a Masters in Public Health. Her career spans 30 years and includes clinical care, teaching, research, and administration. She is a 2019-2020 recipient of a US Fulbright Scholar Award and is mentoring family medicine faculty in Palestine Qualitative Research. The research group is looking at Mental Health and Stress in COVID health care workers in Palestine. Currently she is a professor in Family Medicine and the School of Public Health at Brown University. In her free time, she writes; her COVID Chronicles: How Essential Workers Cope was just published.