Dr. Maryse A. Pedoussaut is a board-certified family medicine and obesity medicine physician. She teaches medical students, concentrating on clinical skills and emphasizing motivational interviewing. At FIU, she introduced mindfulness and stress reduction workshops.
As faculty in the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP), Dr. Pedoussaut conducts virtual household visits with medical, nursing, physician assistant and social work students. She leads the group health care visits for household members who are prediabetic and diabetic, and she sees patients aboard the program’s Mobile Health Center in Hialeah.
Pedoussaut is the faculty advisor for the American Medical Student Association chapter and the Lifestyle Medicine Group, and co-advisor for MedSWISH, a student-run community service organization that provides health screenings and education to the community.
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Areas of Expertise
- Lifestyle medicine
Current Courses Taught
- BMS 6071 Community Engaged Physician II
- MDC 6102 Community Engaged Physician III
- MDC 6103 Community Engaged Physician IV
- BMS 6015 Clinical Skills I
- BMS 6016 Clinical Skills II
Honors & Awards
- Art of Medicine Award, Florida Academy of Family Physicians, 2020
- Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, 2017
Education
- Residency, Family Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial, Miami, FL, 2001
- Post-Graduate Degree in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmaceutic University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, 1991
- Post-Graduate Degree in Medical Statistics Applied to Clinical Research, P&M Curie University, Paris, France , 1990
- M.D., Paul Sabatier University of Medicine, Toulouse, France, 1989
Board Certifications
American Board of Family Medicine and American Board of Obesity Medicine