Join us for The Journey Matters
This series allows you an opportunity to learn about a featured alumni's path in order to inform your own journey. We're excited to welcome NMF alumna Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase to this discussion.
Our Speaker

Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, M.D., is a Preventive Medicine Fellow in the Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases, and Occupational Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester also pursuing an executive master's degree in public health practice at the University of Minnesota. She is an assistant professor of family medicine with the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and previously served as a senior associate consultant and diversity leader in the Mayo Clinic Department of Family Medicine in Rochester. In that role, she created the first department-wide equity, inclusion, and diversity committee to lead the team through the department’s 2022-23 EID priorities including a faculty development program to promote leadership among women and underrepresented populations in family medicine. She is the president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Board of Trustees, and she formerly chaired the workgroup responsible for the foundation’s humanitarian programs: Family Medicine Cares USA and Family Medicine Cares International where she was instrumental in relaunching the foundation's global health program focused on equity. Recognizing the power of media to deliver relevant and timely health messages, she has contributed to multiple health news and education outlets, including ABC News Health, Minnesota Public Radio, Wall Street Journal, and the Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives Podcast.