Stanford School of Medicine
Office of Diversity and Leadership
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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video 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 »

Mccormick faculty awards

The McCormick Funds were established to support the advancement of women in medicine and/or medical research directly, or by supporting the mentoring, training and encouragement of women pursuing the study of medicine, in teaching medicine, and engaging in medical research.

Open to School of Medicine faculty in all tracks, including clinician educators. Not open to Instructors.

WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: DEADLINE WAS 8/31/08, 5PM.

The recipients of the 2007 McCormick Faculty Awards were:


Anne Brunet, MD,
Genetics: Molecular mechanisms underlying aging and cancer
Jennifer Cochran, PhD, Bioengineering: Engineering a new class of tumor-targeting peptides for cancer imaging and therapy
Amreen Husain, MD,
Obstetrics and Gynecology: Pathogenesis of endometrial cancers: molecular mechanisms of estrogen dependent and independent carcinogenesis


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

women faculty networking

The Women 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.

Beginning in June 2008, the Women Faculty Networking Group will meet for lunch from 12:00pm to 1:30pm on the first Wednesday of each month in the Bing Dining Room. Buffet lunch will be on a drop-in basis—just show up and sign in any time between 11:30 and 1:30pm, and enjoy lunch with your colleagues.

The Women Faculty Networking Group has also formed a Facebook group. For more information about this group and future networking lunches, please contact Lydia Espinosa at 724-0239 or lydiae@stanford.edu.

Future Women Faculty Network Lunches:

Oct 1
Nov 5
Dec 3

EVENTS

SKILLS BUILDING WORKSHOPS
Offered to all interested faculty

Grant Writing
Marilyn Winkleby, PhD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC)
September 10, 2008
5:30pm-7:30pm
Location: Alway Building, M-112
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=07-307

 

Managing Information Overload
Odette Pollar
October 7, 2008
5:30-8:30pm
Location: Alway Building, M-112
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=07-307

Register Here!


Negotiating
Maggie Neale
Professor, GSB
November 20, 2008
5:30-8:30pm
Location: Alway Building, M-112
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=07-307


COMING IN APRIL 2009!

Diversity Insights & Unconscious Bias
Joann Moody, PhD, JD

Faculty Developer, National Higher Education Consultant

April 30th, 2009
Location: TBD

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