Dr. JUDY WASHINGTON

Judy Washington MD is the Medical Director for Student Health at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. Prior to taking this position she was the Medical Director of Women and Family Health in Brooklyn and Assistant Director for the Mountainside Family Practice Associates Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Washington has been a member of STFM since 1996 when she left private practice to join the faculty of the East TN State – Chattanooga Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency. After the Chattanooga program was closed due to state funding, she joined the faculty at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in Newark as assistant Family Medicine Clerkship Director and assistant Director of Medical Student Education. After assuming the Clerkship Director position, she was also appointed Chair of the Clinical Curriculum Committee for the medical school. While at NJ Medical School, she worked with the department to improve preceptor education and provide evidence-based medicine training and resources to each community preceptor. Dr. Washington is a graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. She completed her training in Family Medicine at the Mountainside Family Medicine Residency Program in Verona NJ. She spent six years in private practice after residency in a rural community on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Dr. Washington has multiple interests that include yoga, running and meditation.