J. Michael Taylor, MD, MPH

Michael is a retired dermatologist in Portland with a career-long interest in international and community medicine. He is a graduate of Amherst College, University of Buffalo Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health, and has completed residencies in internal medicine and dermatology at the University of California at San Francisco. Following medical school, Michael went to Nigeria as a US Peace Corps physician. He has taught epidemiology at Dartmouth College and was chief of the department of community medicine at Maine Medical Center, where he helped establish the Family Medicine Department and medical clinics in underserved parts of Maine. Konbit Sante was born from his vision.