Diversity and Inclusion

Stanford Neurology strongly believes in the value of diversity in our training program and we are focused on recruiting and supporting individuals from all backgrounds. We support a number of opportunities for those under-represented in medicine and are continuing to expand our efforts in diversity and inclusion led by Dr. Reena Thomas.

Stanford Neurology Leading in Diversity and Inclusion

Stanford Neurology faculty and residents participate in the expanded Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD) program with the goal of empowering the next generation of medical leaders to carry forward the mission of diversity and inclusion. We recognize the importance of having a medical leadership team comprised of individuals who reflect the diverse patient population that we serve including racial, ethnic, sexual and gender minorities. Building scholarship capacity for improving diversity and inclusion efforts is also a key component of this program in line with the academic mission of the LEAD program.

In the Spotlight

Diversity leaders bolster training and recruitment of underrepresented neurologists

The Department of Neurology at Stanford has been highlighted as a national leader for diversity and inclusion efforts under the direction of Dr. Reena Thomas, Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the department. Neurology Today featured Stanford Neurology in their issue on January 10, 2019 with an article entitled, "Meet Neurology's Diversity Leaders." Dr. Frank Longo reflected on the importance of these efforts to the field of Neurology: “As precision health becomes more important, it is critical for our field to better and more deeply engage the overall community to have the greatest impact. We can only do this if neurology in general and our department at Stanford, [specifically], reflect the community with all of its views, nuances, and experiences."

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The Teaching & Mentoring Academy’s Medical & Bioscience Education Seminar rounds out the Fall quarter with Dr. Michael Gisondi presenting #HeforShe: Gender Equity, Inclusion, and Leadership. This seminar is next week on Wednesday, December 4 from 12:30p-1:30p in LKSC 120. Lunch is included with your registration.

Michael Gisondi, MD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Education
Department of Emergency Medicine

GME Diversity Recruitment Receptions

Prospective housestaff who are exploring a residency or fellowship training program at Stanford are encouraged to attend a "Diversity Reception & Social" to meet our community of diverse trainees and faculty leaders.

2019-2020 Dates: Nov 6, Nov 25, Dec 12, and Jan 16
Time: 5-6 pm
Location: Lane Medical Library, D-CORE (L003), 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford
Event Contact: Trey Huynh-Ngo, GME (650-723-5948), gme@med.stanford.edu

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2019 Lane Exhibit

Adelaide Brown: A Stanford Medicine Pioneer

2019 annual exhibit located in the Lane Medical Library's first-floor exhibit area

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LEAD 2.0: Empowering Trainees Through Building Leadership & Scholarship Capacity in Diversity and Inclusion

Wednesday, November 6, 2019
12:30pm-1:30pm
LKSC 120

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Why Diversity Matters in Medicine
Stanford Reunion Homecoming Talk

Speakers: Bryant Lin and Latha Palaniappan

Time: Fri, 10/25/2019 - 3:15pm to 4:15pm

Location: Knight Management Center (D-9), North Hall, 3rd Floor, Oberndorf Event Center

Physician Advocacy in California: A Panel Discussion

Elizabeth Griffiths, MD, MPH
Director of Health Care Advocacy
UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine

Dustin Corcoran, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
California Medical Association

Joe Nation, PhD
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Former Assemblyman, California's 6th District (2000-2006)

2019 LGBTQ+ Forum

Monday October 7, 2019
Li Ka Shing, Berg Hall

Theme: Connections. We are hoping to foster connections and relationships amongst members of the LGBTQ+ community, and also with their allies in the School of Medicine, SHC, and LPCH.

Information and Registration

Sep September 06 Fri 2019

Creating Inclusive Workplaces: Moving Beyond Bias in Medicine

Caroline Simard, PhD
Managing Director and Senior Research Scholar, Women’s Leadership Lab, Stanford University

Aug August 30 Fri 2019

Stanford Neurodiversity Project

A Model to Maximize the Potential of Neurodiversity In The Workplace and Higher Education

Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor -Stanford Med Center Line, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Lack of Diversity in Medicine is a National Emergency: The Way Forward

Quinn Capers, IV, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Dean of Admissions and Professor of Medicine Ohio State University College of Medicine
Program Director of Interventional Cardiology at the Wexner Medical Center

San Francisco PRIDE Parade

Stanford Medicine is walking within the San Francisco PRIDE parade this coming June 30^th, 2019!

The idea stemmed from efforts to promote LGBTQ+ Visibility within Stanford Medicine's network, and efforts have been combined with Stanford's PRIDE Organization in order to make this an all-inclusive, campus-wide event. If you would like to be included in this event, please fill out this quick sign-up form in order to quantify the number of individuals whom:

Are interested in helping to volunteer and coordinate people before/during the event
Are interested in attending the event
Are associated with a specific department
Belong to a specific Stanford constituency (staff, undergraduate, grad, MD, etc.)

In addition to identifying those interested in attending the event, this initial survey will help organize participants into groups that they would most likely want to walk with. Family and friends are welcome! If you should have any additional questions about involvement in PRIDE, please do not hesitate to ask Robert Victor at rbvictor@stanford.edu.

2nd Annual Diversity & Inclusion Forum

Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center
May 10, 2019 • 8am-1:30pm

The event will be an enriching opportunity for faculty, trainees, students, postdocs, staff and community members to learn tools and strategies to enable you to become an effective change agent for diversity and inclusion in medical education.

Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC)

April 17-21, 2019, Philadelphia, PA

The Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) is SNMA's premier event where 1200 medical and pre-medical students gather at the nation's most diverse medical education conference.

Haku Healthcare American Indian Student Summit

The primary intention of this one-day student summit is to bring together American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) pre-health professional students, health professional students and health professionals to engage in a dialogue about the shortage of AI/ANs in medicine and other health professional fields.

35th Annual LMSA West Regional Conference

The 35th Annual LMSA West Regional Conference will be held on Friday, March 8th evening and Saturday, March 9th, 2019. The goal of the LMSA-West Conference is to increase diversity of the health professions and inform future leaders in healthcare about the issues affecting the Latinx community.

2019 Leadership and Academic Medicine Conference

February 1-2, 2019
4610 X Street, Education Building
Sacramento, CA 95817

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GME Sponsored Diversity Receptions for Prospective Residents and Fellows

For prospective applicants interviewing at Stanford as well as current housestaff at Stanford Health Care, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, and affiliated hospitals:

November 7, 2018; 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM; D-CORE, Lane Building

November 26, 2018; 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM; Bing Dining Room

December 6, 2018; 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM; D-CORE, Lane Building

January 17, 2019; 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM; Bing Dining Room

The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity

#metoo: Navigating Sexual Harassment, Power Differentials, and Gender Inequity in Academic Medicine

The OFDD welcomes Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil., Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Monday, January 28, 2019 LKSC, Dean's Suite Boardroom, 12:00-1:30pm

First Stanford Medicine LGBTQ+ Forum

We are proud to announce that Stanford Medicine will be holding its first

LGBTQ+ Visibility Forum on October 10^th, 2018 from 4 pm – 7pm within Berg Hall.

This event has been established to highlight the many important, impactful strides that LGBTQ+ individuals have made within our medical community and to increase the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community on our campus.

Diversity Works

The Diversity Bonus
How Great Teams Pay off in the Knowledge Economy

Date: Wednesday April 18, 2018
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: Tresidder Oak Lounge, Stanford

Speaker: Scott E. Page, Author & Professor

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Presented by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Co-sponsored by the Offices of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Vice Provost for Student Affairs, and Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, and WISE Ventures

1st Annual Diversity & Inclusion Forum

Diversity & Inclusion Forum

Date: Friday, May 18, 2018
Time: 8:00 am–1:30 pm
Location: LPCH Auditorium, 725 Welch Road, West Building, Stanford

Join us for the First Annual Diversity and Inclusion Forum! This event will highlight innovative workshops developed by our pediatric trainees and faculty mentors who have participated in the inaugural LEAD (Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity) Program. We will provide tools and strategies to enable you to become effective change agents for diversity and inclusion in medical education. The event will be an enriching opportunity for faculty, trainees, students, postdocs, and staff and will include a Pediatric Grand Rounds lecture. We will conclude with a diversity and inclusion fair held in the LPCH atrium to celebrate the diversity of this community. All are welcome to participate!

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Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians

Academic Medicine Career Development West Regional Conference

In January Stanford University hosted a conference entitled "Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians" (BNGAP). The mission was to help diverse medical students and residents become aware of academic medicine as a career option and to provide them with the resources to further explore and potentially embark on an academic medicine career.

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Opportunities

Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Leadership Awards

In celebration of the 10th Anniversary Celebration/2nd Pre-Faculty Career Development Conference of BNGAP, the executive committee is allotting two sets of awards. Learn more about these awards and apply now. Applications due October 15, 2019. Get more information

Funded visitor clerkships

These opportunities are for Senior medical students from groups that have been traditionally under-represented in medicine to have a month-long clinical experience at Stanford. Our goal is to highlight all that the Stanford Neurology residency training program has to offer, including world-class clinical education and varied case exposure from all subspecialties, state-of-the art clinical and research technology and innovation, a warm and welcoming community, and career mentorship wherever your interests may lie.

SCORE program. Space is limited, please apply as early as possible.
Medical Student Diversity Scholarships

News

Healthcare Equality Index

Stanford Health Care has been named a LGBTQ Health Care Equality Leader by Human Rights Campaign. This honor recognizes our commitment to both LGBTQ patients and employees.

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Advancing diversity and inclusion at Stanford

One of our most important university-wide goals is to promote diversity and inclusion. We want to ensure that diversity of thought, experience and approach is represented in all aspects of our education and research mission and that a diversity of cultures, races and ethnicities, genders, beliefs, abilities and identities is thriving on our campus.

Today we are taking steps to demonstrate our commitment to this goal: the publication of the Provost’s Statement on Diversity and Inclusion and the launch of the IDEAL dashboard.

Visible and valued: Stanford Medicine’s first-ever LGBTQ+ Forum

About 350 people attended the afternoon, on-campus event, which included LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies and colleagues from the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children’s Health. Guests were treated to giveaways and delicious food. As much as the gender and sexual minorities at the event were there to be part of a chosen family, their allies and colleagues had chosen to be part of that same family, too.

Diversity center for med school opens in Lane Library

The Diversity Center of Representation and Empowerment, or CORE, provides a space where any member of the Stanford Medicine community interested in issues of inclusion and diversity can hold meetings or just hang out and study.

Reena P. Thomas, MD, PhD

Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology

Department of Neurology Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Faculty
Cynthia Campen
Jaime Lopez
Michelle Monje-Deisseroth
Neil Schwartz
Reena Thomas, Chair
Zachary Threlkeld
Nirali Vora

Residents and Fellows
Ria Pal
Ashley Rawls
Amanda Sandoval Karamian

2019 LGBTQ+ Forum
(October 2019)

Stanford Medicine Diversity Leaders Celebration (Sept 2019)

San Francisco Pride 2019

Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) for the Student National Medical Association (SNMA). Residency program coordinator, Mitzine Wright. (April 2019)

LMSA West Regional Conference

GME Diversity Group dinner to celebrate graduating residents

Women in Neuroscience: Recognizing the following recent promotions: Dr. Leslie Lee, Dr. Sharon Sha, Dr. Odette Harris, and Dr. Chitra Venkat. (May 2018)