Bishop Fellowship Program

The Bishop Fellowship Program was inaugurated in 2000 to prepare senior family medicine faculty to assume positions of greater responsibility in academic medicine and health care leadership. It was developed because of the vision of F. Marian Bishop, PhD, founding member and former president of the Foundation, and is supported by the F. Marian Bishop Charitable Trust. This 1-year program works in partnership with the American Council on Education’s ACE Fellowship program. Fellows attend three week-long seminars on higher education issues organized by ACE, and make three week-long visits to a medical school where the host dean or other administrator serves as a mentor.

"My experience as a Bishop Fellow took me beyond family medicine and allowed a glimpse of the complex issues that face a university administrator/medical school dean. The ACE Fellowship was welcoming and challenging. The perspective gained from these experiences was essential background and enabled me to move to my current position."


-Elizabeth Burns, MD, MA, President & CEO,
Michigan State University Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies
Community Dean, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine