Dr. Patricia Schmidt is passionate about education, patient care, and mentoring.  She has a long history of involvement, using her skills to teach, and serve.  Correctional medicine is fairly new to her lexicon of patient care.  It is her third iteration as a physician leader.  She has practiced in primary care and hospice previously.   In her current role as State Medical Director for Corizon Health, she is actively advancing the mission of quality patient care to over 38, 000 lives within the Michigan Department of Corrections.  She continues to collaborate and integrate data analytics into patient care.