Updated: January 23, 2013



  • Patients & Families
  • Our research programs are committed to an ethical and humanitarian approach to improving the quality of primary medical care. Find information about current research projects in Family Medicine, physicians involved, and opportunities for participating.

  • Health Professionals
  • Our success as an academic leader goes far beyond our success in grant funding. We have worked hard to create a strong and inclusive academic environment. An atmosphere of evidence-based inquiry, rigor, and excellence pervades, and scholarly activities are encouraged and valued.
  • We have a strong presence in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at U-M. Our faculty members hold editorial board and manuscript review positions on literally every major family medicine journal.

Great Lakes Research into Practice Network


The Great Lakes Research into Practice Network (GRIN) is a statewide primary care research network of office practices in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and independent-practice nursing. Its goal is to assist primary care researchers to conduct studies in primary care settings. This, in turn, will help practitioners apply research findings that are reflective of the complexities of primary care practice.

View recent GRIN projects.

Check out the GRIN website.