Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase is a Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician who is committed to improving health outcomes, both locally and globally, through the promotion and practice of Primary Care and Preventive Health. Recognizing the power of media to deliver relevant and timely health messages, she is the creator and host of the Millennial Health Podcast, has published with ABC News Health and is a contributor on Hippo Education’s Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives podcast.

She is a Preventive Medicine Fellow in the Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases, and Occupational Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and she is also pursuing an Executive Master’s degree in Public Health Practice at the University of Minnesota. She holds the rank of Assistant Professor of Family Medicine with the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and previously served as a Senior Associate Consultant and Diversity Leader in the Mayo Clinic Department of Family Medicine in Rochester. In that role she created the first department wide equity, inclusion, and diversity committee to lead the team through the department’s 2022-23 EID priorities including a faculty development program to promote leadership among women and underrepresented minorities in Family Medicine. Her academic research is focused on addressing areas of healthcare insecurity based on community needs and improving health disparities in marginalized populations.

 She is the President-Elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Board of Trustees and is slated to serve as the Foundation’s President in 2025. She previously chaired the workgroup responsible for the foundation’s humanitarian programs: Family Medicine Cares USA and Family Medicine Cares International where she was been instrumental in relaunching the global health program focused on equity. Prior to her current role at the Mayo Clinic, she served as a National Health Service Corps Scholar with CentraCare Health- Long Prairie, a critical access hospital in Central Minnesota.

She completed her residency training at the Mayo Clinic. While there, she was a member of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Board of Directors, President of the Mayo Fellows Association and recipient of one of the Mayo Clinic’s highest student honors: The Barbara Bush Award. She graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville Tennessee where she was the recipient of the Family Medicine Leadership Award and served as Miss Meharry, the institution’s community ambassador. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, from The City College of the City University of New York where she was a Colin Powell Fellow. 

She founded Women of Excellence, Strength & Tenacity (WEST) an organization dedicated to empowering young women to live up to their highest potential. She continues to support philanthropic efforts in medicine, through volunteering locally and abroad. She serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Board of Trustees, the Center Clinic Board of Directors and is the West/Midwest Regional Leader for the Global Jamaica Diaspora Youth Council.

She was named a 40 under 40 Leader in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum, she was featured in the book Against All Odds: Celebrating Black Women in Medicine and most was awarded the 2020 Townsend Harris Medal by the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of the City College of New York. 

Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase is Jamaican born and New York raised. She lives with her husband Dr. Joseph Akambase and two daughters in Minnesota.