"The ability to foster diversity is a skill we are actively teaching those who will lead academic medicine into the future." Hannah Valantine, MD Our Mission
To promote the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty, students, trainees and staff -- representative of the communities in which we work and, To develop faculty to their full potential as academic and community leaders. About our Office
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Committed to Diversity in Academic MedicineGrounded in the compelling evidence that diversity of thought and perspective provides richer solutions to the complex challenges of academic medicine, we recognized that achieving excellence in our mission requires an expansion of the diversity amongst our faculty, trainees and staff. More »
Targeting the "upstream" causes of poor health
For more than 20 years, Marilyn Winkleby has combined epidemiologic study with intervention research to shed light on the ways in which social factors impact health. The author of more than 100 articles in public health, epidemiology, and medical journals, she focuses on many of the issues currently making headlines. Those include cardiovascular-disease risk factors such as obesity, poor nutrition and physical inactivity; women's health; and the health status of ethnic minority and low-socioeconomic groups. Read the Q & A here FOSTERING DIVERSITY - podcast with dr. valantine As senior associate dean for diversity and leadership, Hannah Valantine, MD, wants to help develop a more-inclusive faculty at the School of Medicine and to ensure that all faculty members have the resources they need to become leaders. Listen to the podcast here
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Dean Philip Pizzo, Hannah Valantine and other leaders at the School of Medicine discuss the importance of diversity to academic medicine.
