Jim Withers, M.D., the founder of the Street Medicine movement, will visit the Wayne State University School of Medicine this week to speak with students and to take part in the filming of a documentary about his efforts to bring medicine to the homeless.

The School of Medicine's chapter, Street Medicine Detroit, will host Dr. Withers at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 12 in the Blue Lecture Hall. He will present "Go to the People: Street Medicine Movement." The presentation is open to all students, faculty and staff.

Dr. Withers, recently named a CNN Hero, launched the movement that brought medical care to the homeless living on the streets in Pittsburgh in the early 1990s. He has worked to spread the project to multiple cities since then, including working with WSU medical students to form Street Medicine Detroit.

Street Medicine efforts in cities around the world have led to a global awareness of Street Medicine that embodies compassionate, accessible and cost-effective care to a population that otherwise would not be served medically. Wayne State University School of Medicine students formed a chapter in 2012.