About the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD)

The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD) serves to support faculty engagement and to develop all faculty to their fullest potential as academic, clinical, and community leaders.

Areas of Focus

OFDD programs and initiatives are designed to address the factors that have been demonstrated to influence the recruitment, retention, and advancement of faculty including enabling career and leadership professional development opportunities and building a strong and engaged faculty community.

 
  • In order to meet the evolving nature of needs in academic medicine, we focus on transparency and accountability, through the ongoing collection of metrics related to the advancement of our faculty community.
     

In order to meet the evolving nature of needs in academic medicine, we focus on transparency and accountability, through the ongoing collection of metrics related to faculty development and diversity.


 

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Our Team

Yvonne (Bonnie) A. Maldonado, MD

Senior Associate Dean
Professor and Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Yvonne (Bonnie) A. Maldonado, MD, is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity and Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Maldonado attended Stanford University School of Medicine, completed a residency program at the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and received postgraduate training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University. 

Magali Fassiotto, PhD

Associate Dean

Gisell Quihuis

Director

Gisell Quihuis, Ph.D., is Director for Faculty Development and Diversity. She holds a PhD in educational psychology with a focus on mindset, motivation, and achievement. Her work revolves around equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice in educational settings and institutions.  In her role as Director in OFDD, she leads strategic initiatives in support of diverse faculty at the School of Medicine. Her role includes serving as operations lead for the office’s Department Diversity Liaisons program, organizing the annual Chair Metric program, leading the strategic implementation of the faculty Task Forces, and serving as key strategist across the office’s new and ongoing activities. Dr. Quihuis is a former first-generation, low-income, immigrant Latina who obtained her BA and PhD from Stanford University and her MEd from Harvard University. Her lived experiences inform her passion for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion work.
 

Jonathan Altamirano, MS

Senior Research Analyst

Jonathan Altamirano is a senior research analyst in the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, as well as Stanford Medicine’s Global Child Health Program, where he has authored over 10 publications. Jonathan is an expert on issues of diversity in the academic medical setting. His research has demonstrated disparities in patient satisfaction across demographic groups, with policy implications for physician evaluation. Jonathan received his BA in Human Biology and MS in Biology from Stanford University, where he served as a mentor for marginalized populations in the Bay Area. He is originally from Houston, Texas, and is a native Spanish speaker.


 

Caro De Sa

Research and Program Officer

Caro De Sa is a Research and Program Officer in Stanford Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity. In this role, they evaluate and support existing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the office, create content that promotes DEI within academic medicine, and assist with planning for events and initiatives in the SOM. Caro obtained their BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University, where they focused on community-building through arts-based practices, cooperative living spaces, and queer-affirming organizations. Their work is focused on queer embodiments as sites of collective resistance against enmeshed systems of oppression concerning race, gender, and sexuality.

Jill Evans, MPH

Pediatrics and OFDD Program Director  

Jill Evans, MPH, is a Program Director in Pediatrics and OFDD.  She provides administrative oversight for several initiatives including Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity (SPHERE), one of five NIH centers focused on using precision-medicine tools to improve the health of underserved minority populations.  She also manages the Health Equity Action Leadership (HEAL) Network that brings faculty together to address health inequities through collaboration, mentorship, education and policy. In her first six years at Stanford, as Research Director for the Office of Community Health, Jill collaborated with Stanford researchers and community organizations to improve the health of populations by building community capacity for research through academic-community partnerships.

 

Roxana Farias, MPH

Program Manager

Roxana Farias, MPH, is a Program Manager in Stanford Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity. In this role, she oversees professional education, health equity, diversity and leadership programs for faculty. She manages the award and grant programs, including the Dr. Augustus A. White III and Family Faculty Award, pilot grants, and community funding initiatives. Roxana supports the R01 Countdown Program and Close the Deal sessions for junior faculty, as well as other grant writing workshops for the Stanford Medicine community. Prior to joining OFDD, Roxana worked in the Stanford Prevention Research Center and has 8 years of research experience in the areas of behavioral weight management, retention, youth and young adult tobacco exposure and women’s health initiatives.

Lauren Hailey, MA

Communications Coordinator and Administrative Associate

Lauren Hailey is the Communications Coordinator and Administrative Associate, and provides support to the OFDD Team. She is responsible for OFDD’s general communications, including the monthly newsletter and social media profiles. She is a Bay Area native with 8 years of experience in administrative functions and office management, as well as social media and website management. Lauren obtained her BS in Journalism and her MA in Communication Studies (with a concentration in Intercultural Communication) from San Jose State University.



 

Kelly Heinrich, MS  

Senior Analyst

Kelly Heinrich is an applied sociologist who loves using data to understand human and organizational behavior. Her role as senior analyst leverages over a decade of experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop and implement program evaluations. She focuses on actionable results that cultivate strategic initiatives that bolster faculty development and networking through innovative insights.

She is dedicated to improving our programs through reliable methods, from designing impactful surveys to establishing standard operating procedures for metric development. This approach empowers us to elevate the decision-making process, ensuring our strategies align with the university's commitment to excellence.

 

Diana Koeplin

Assistant Director for Strategic Outreach in Faculty Recruitment

Diana Koeplin serves as the inaugural Assistant Director for Strategic Outreach in Faculty Recruitment, in the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity. Her role is to develop strategies to support School of Medicine’s commitment to fair and inclusive recruitment practices. Diana partners with faculty search committees, designing tools and resources focused on strategic outreach, analyzing applicant pools, and serving as subject matter expert and resource on strategic outreach in the academic recruitment process. Diana has a strong background in Academic Affairs and Human Resources, with over 17 years of experience supporting higher education, making her the ideal incumbent for this role. Diana is also a Bay Area native, earning a BA in Psychology from University of San Francisco.

Osagie Oaiya

Research and Program Officer

Osagie Oaiya is a Research and Program Officer in Stanford Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity. In this role, he evaluates and supports existing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the office, creates content that promotes DEI within academic medicine, and assists with planning for events and initiatives in the SOM. Osagie is a Bay Area native and obtained his BS in Public Health from San Jose State University, where he was an undergraduate research assistant and published multiple scholarly articles on health disparities affecting underserved populations in urban environments.



Apurva Seshadri

Research Assistant

Apurva Seshadri is a Research Assistant in the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD). Her work is focused on social justice and equity in medicine. In her role as a Data Analyst, she helps review, validate, organize, and present data for OFDD. She has worked on various data projects such as SNAP (Stanford Network for Advancement and Promotion), Attendance Dashboards, and StandPoint Qualitative Analysis. In addition, she has worked on crafting a course for faculty called Building Inclusive Labs designed to make their lab spaces more inclusive.

Apurva is a Bay Area native and graduated from Notre Dame High School in San Jose in 2023. She is currently an undergraduate student at Occidental College in Los Angeles and will graduate from Occidental in 2027 with a BA in American Studies and a minor in Critical Theory and Social Justice. Apurva joined the OFDD team in 2021 because of her passions for social justice and equity in healthcare and education systems.
 

Kathleen Victor

Administrative Associate

Kathleen is a seasoned professional and Silicon Valley native, bringing over 25 years of expertise in office management, finance, small business administration, and customer service. With an additional 7 years of experience in the insurance industry as an office administrator and claims investigator, she combines practical knowledge with strategic insight. In 2024, she earned her BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Southern New Hampshire University. Kathleen joined Stanford in 2014 as Program Coordinator for the Big Data initiative, and in 2015, she transitioned to OFDD as Program Coordinator and Administrative Assistant.

 

 

Michaela Kiernan, PhD

R01 Countdown Program Director

Michaela Kiernan, PhD currently directs the Stanford University School of Medicine (SOM) Office of Faculty Development and Diversity R01 Countdown Program, an intensive grant writing boot camp for early-career faculty, which has generated $173M in first-time NIH R01 funding and other grants across 14+ NIH Institutes for these faculty to date. Dr. Kiernan, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, received her PhD from Yale University, and has expertise in clinical and community research methods. She has been the Principal Investigator of multiple NIH R01 grants examining lifestyle intervention trials, and her current research focuses on retention strategies for randomized trials. Dr. Kiernan has served as an ad hoc member, standing member and co-chair of numerous NIH study sections and been awarded multiple SOM divisional teaching awards.

Sabrina Moudgil 

Senior Financial Analyst

Sabrina Moudgil provides financial support to the OFDD team, which includes facilitating the annual budget process, reporting budget versus actual activity, and assisting in day-to-day financial inquiries. She obtained her BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and her MBA from Simon Fraser University.  Sabrina has worked as a finance professional in banking and non-profit sectors for over 10 years.

In Memory of Laure Aurelian, PhD

Former Senior Advisor for Faculty Development

 

OFDD Faculty Directors

OFDD’s Faculty Directors lead faculty communities that advance OFDD’s mission to support faculty development and diversity across Stanford Medicine. Learn more about the Directors (from left): Carmin Powell, Cesar Padilla, Peter Poullos, Stephanie Harman, Lisa Rogo-Gupta, Travis Reece-Nguyen, Samantha Wang, and James Xie.