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 Diversity

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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.

Hannah Valantine

"The ability to foster diversity is a skill we are actively teaching those who will lead academic medicine into the future."

Hannah Valantine, MD
Senior Associate Dean, Office of Diversity and Leadership

Committed to Achieving Excellence In Research, Education and Patient Care

Grounded 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 »

Medical Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey From April through June 2007, a Medical School Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey was done as a pilot study at Stanford as well as nine other medical schools. The survey was created in a partnership between the AAMC and the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE). The Executive Summary (link) provides a broad overview of several hundred pages of data that describes the overall satisfaction and experiences of the faculty of Stanford, with comparisons to the other institutions. We invite you to peruse and discuss these results. For this pilot survey, respondents did not include clinician educators; the School of Medicine would like to include clinician educators in this survey as soon as it is possible to do so. The AAMC/COACHE plans a national rollout of the survey tool and benchmarking report in the Fall 2008. To read more about the results, please click here	events SKILLS BUILDING WORKSHOPS Scientific Writing Workshop Michaela Kiernan, PhD Sr. Research Scientist Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) July 17, 2008 5:30-7:30pm Location: TBD Grant Writing Workshop Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH Professor of Medicine Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) September 10, 2008 Location: TBD Negotiating Maggie Neale Professor, GSB November 11, 2008 5:30-8:30pm Location: TBD (watch here for details and registration for our upcoming events)	women faculty networking The Women's Faculty Networking Group is designed to bring together women faculty in an informal setting, to become acquainted with each other and discuss topics of common interest. This group is open to all women faculty and instructors, including clinician educators. To accommodate multiple priorities, meetings are scheduled both at lunch and in the early evening for coffee, every other month. Lunch meetings occur at the Clark Center, and coffees take place in the Dean’s Conference Room, M121. The Women’s Faculty Networking Group has also formed a Facebook group. For more information about this group, please contact Jennifer at jscanlin@stanford.edu. For a complete schedule of upcoming meetings of the Women’s Faculty Networking Group please click here.