OFDD Community Support Initiative
To build community and encourage new networks that enact a sense of belonging among faculty in academic medicine at Stanford, the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD) seeks to help faculty establish communities and networks for support. Awardees receive funding to organize networks with an impact on inclusive excellence. OFDD provides funds for a pilot year with the goal that groups also consider how they may secure other funds for the continuation of the network.
To learn more about a group, please fill out this survey. Please note that at this time, these networks are for Stanford Medicine affiliates only.
2024 Awardees
Keri O. Brenner, MD MPA
Medicine
Hippocratic Society Community Network
Cynthia Khoo, MD, PhD
Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine
Local and Global Health Equity Network in Perioperative Health
The Local and Global Health Equity Network in Perioperative Health aims to bring together practitioners in Global Health and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to collaborate on consequential issues facing vulnerable populations, create community amongst those faculty and trainees, and align departmental and institutional priorities for improving human health worldwide. The community network will launch with a health equity workshop that emphasizes a train the trainer model and the connection between local and global health. Anesthesiologists, surgeons, intensivists, obstetricians, emergency physicians, and other health equity advocates in the perioperative space are welcome to join.
Christianna Sim, MD, MPH
Emergency Medicine
Network for Faculty Advancing Health Equity in the Emergency Department
Bo Yu, MD, MS
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Physician-Scientist Network
Physician scientists are a small group of faculty members who are practicing physicians leading a basic or translational research lab. Being a physician and a scientist requires us to do two full-time jobs well. The extra efforts and special needs for doing these two jobs simultaneously are often unrecognized by clinical departments. As a small group, we often do not have peers within our own departments who can offer support and guidance. A school-wide network for physician scientists will provide a safe space for us to connect and to support each other. This network will cultivate a sense of inclusion and belonging among physician scientists at Stanford while facilitating collaborations. We hope to obtain official support from the School of Medicine for continuing this network to support physician scientists in upcoming years.
