Michael Fleming, UW ICTR Assistant Director

Michael Fleming, MD, MPH, Michael Fleming is the Assistant Director of Education and Career Development at UW-ICTR. Dr. Fleming is also a Professor of Family Medicine at UW. He has served on the National CTSA Education and Career Development Key Function Committee since 2006.

His research and training programs have focused on testing behavioral interventions in community-based primary care practices. He has also published studies on phospholipids, alcohol biomarkers, pharmacotherapy trials, epidemiological studies and educational interventions.

Since his first NIH grant in 1992, he has been the PI on 13 NIH grants and contracts, including five R01 funded multi-site clinical trials. He is currently the PI on two T32s, a K24, two R01s and an R42/43. He has a large clinical research training program and has been a lead research mentor for eight MS students, seven PhD students, two MD/PhD students, 12 physician post-doctoral fellows and three PhD post doctoral research fellows. All of the physician post doctoral fellows are primary care physicians with the current fellows including three pediatricians, four family physicians and two general internists. His research training programs focus on training primary care physicians to become NIH level clinician scientists.

Since starting his post doctoral training program in 2000, seven of his 11 post docs have obtained K23, K08 or K01 grants. Previous students and fellows are on the faculties at the University of Michigan, University of Mississippi, Meharry Medical College, University of Buffalo, Georgetown, and University of Wisconsin. In 2005, Dr. Fleming was elected to the National Academies of Science Institute of Medicine in recognition of his innovative training programs in clinical research. His experience ideally suits him to direct the Research Education and Career Development programs of the UW-ICTR.