2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Wednesday Wed
Women Faculty Networking: with Special Guests Rebecca Blankenburg and Lahia Yemane
In-person in the Executive Boardroom, 3rd floor, 500P
Join us for this in-person lunch session with special guests, Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH and Lahia Yemane, MD, as they share their experiences as prominent leaders in the graduate medical education space.
Speakers
Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH
Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH is the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education, and in January 2025, she will also become the ACGME Designated Institutional Official at Stanford. She has most recently served as the Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education, Associate Chair of Education in Pediatrics, and Director of the Coaching Program at Stanford. In addition, she has served in residency leadership for 13 years (as Stanford Pediatrics Residency Program Director and Associate Program Director) and fellowship leadership (developed, founded, and co-led the Stanford Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship). Nationally, she has served as the President of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (2020-2022) and has led collaborative teams to address improving diversity, inclusivity, and belonging in GME, curricular reform, recruitment, and workforce issues. Her educational research interests focus on building a more diverse, inclusive and equitable learning environment and helping learners develop a sense of belonging, professional identity formation, and competence through longitudinal coaching and scholarly mentorship.
Dr. Lahia Yemane
Dr. Lahia Yemane serves in numerous local and national roles related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), medical education, and mentorship, including Associate Program Director for the Pediatrics Residency and inaugural Assistant Dean of Diversity for GME within the Office of Diversity in Medical Education. Dr. Yemane's scholarship focuses on building and evaluating innovative diversity and inclusion programs and studying facilitators and interventions that support the recruitment, inclusion and retention of underrepresented in medicine (UIM) GME trainees in academic medicine. She is one of the founding co-directors for the Stanford Medicine Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD) Program, created in 2017, which is a 10-month longitudinal leadership program for residents and fellows across GME to develop leadership and scholarship skills in addressing issues related to DEI, to produce leaders in academic medicine dedicated to DEI and to improve the culture of medicine. She is also the founding co-director of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors’ Advancing Inclusiveness in Medical Education Scholars (AIMS) Program, created in 2019, which is a national mentorship and professional development program for UIM pediatric residents interested in careers in pediatric medical education leadership.