Our Communities

Cleveland Piggott,
MD, MPH
Vice Chair for Departmental Engagement

Heather Bleacher,
MD, MPH
Director of Community Health Initiatives and Outcomes

In our Department of Family Medicine, we provide comprehensive health care, education, and research for individuals of all ages and backgrounds in the context of their family and communities! Our communities are diverse, amazing, and span our local Anschutz Campus in Aurora, our clinical practices across metro Denver, and all four corners of Colorado!
We recognize that working with and in communities is as important as it can be challenging. We seek to be thoughtful and humble in our approach while striving towards a shared vision of success with our community partners.

Additionally, we see our employees as part of our Departmental Community. How we support and engage them (each other!) is core to our values. We want to help our employees thrive and see that as the best way for us as a department to succeed in our mission to "heal, teach, discover, and connect. Together." We also seek to give our departmental community the tools to best address the varied health needs of the communities we live and work in.

To learn more about Colorado communities, service and engagement opportunities, and departmental engagement initiatives, we encourage you to check out our webpages—linked below!  

Want to learn more about how we engage together and in community? Visit our Research mission area web pages to find out more about the work we do with communities or visit our Human Resources web page to learn about working in our department. Thanks for engaging with us!