Dr. Wedemeyer serves as Director of Education Training in the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine where she collaborates across disciplines to develop community engagement and service-learning initiatives within the surrounding communities. In this position, she also has teaching responsibilities across several courses including as small group facilitator in the Promotion & Maintenance of Health and Art & Practice of Medicine.
Her research and scholarly activity have been informed by positions in humanities and professional school graduate assistantships, research assistantship with University of Michigan youth injury prevention, and presently on creating pathways for those underrepresented in medicine while encouraging medical students to become compassionate, culturally responsive scholar practitioners. An extension of that work has been to establish mentoring opportunities among medical students and middle school students in an effort to encourage those underrepresented in medicine to pursue careers they may not have otherwise.
Dr. Wedemeyer’s research interests include community engagement/community engaged learning; pathway programming; strengths-based, anti-deficit frameworks; and positive youth development.
Contact Information:
Office: 133 O’Dowd Hall
Phone: (248) 370-3622
Email: [email protected]
Specialties:
- Community engagement, community engaged learning
- Inclusive teaching practices and pedagogy
- Pathway programming
Education:
- PhD, Education (Educational Leadership), Oakland University, Rochester, MI, August 2014
- MA, Counseling (Community), Oakland University, Rochester, MI, May 2006
- Texas Educator Certificate, May 2001
- BA Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, June 2000
- Ronald E. McNair Scholar
- Honors College
Research Interests:
- Community engagement/community engaged learning
- Pathway programming
- Strengths-based, anti-deficit frameworks
- Community cultural wealth
- Social capital; linkages in health and education outcomes
- Positive youth development
