The Stanford Medicine Leadership Academy (SMLA) supports Stanford Medicine’s vision by strengthening the capacity of faculty and to shape their future through ethical influencing and effective change management.

Linda M. Boxer, MD, PhD - Vice Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Linda Boxer is the Vice Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine and the Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the School of Medicine. Dr. Boxer obtained her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University. She was an intern and resident in internal medicine at Stanford where she also completed a hematology/oncology fellowship. Dr. Boxer joined the Stanford faculty in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, and held a position at the Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.

Her laboratory investigated the mechanisms of deregulated expression of oncogenes by translocation into the immunoglobulin locus in B cell lymphomas. Dr. Boxer’s clinical expertise is in hematology malignancies. She was director of the Clinical Investigator Pathway (the ABIM research pathway) in the Department of Medicine and the hematology fellowship director for eight years. Dr. Boxer trained and mentored many physicians and physician scientists during this time and helped with their development into independent investigators.

Dr. Boxer served as Chief of the Division of Hematology for 13 years. She was Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine for 2 years, and Senior Vice Chair for 1 year. Dr. Boxer was appointed Vice Dean of the School of Medicine in September 2013.

Eugene R. (Geno) Schnell, PhD - Program Director, Stanford Medicine Leadership Academy

Geno began his career as a neuroscientist working with a medical center team to understand the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. As a research administrator, he was captivated by the effectiveness of powerful individual disciplines (such as radiology, neurology, psychiatry) but perplexed by the tension and paralysis in the collective enterprise constructed for this important study. Curious about this experience, Geno studied organizational dynamics and eventually the factors that lead to successful and unsuccessful cross-functional teams, and further, the challenges of multidisciplinary work in top management teams.

Today, clients engage Geno as coach, facilitator, trainer, advisor and designer to help them develop robust solutions to complex problems. Recent consulting work with AstraZeneca, Lockheed-Martin and General Motors has been focused on challenges such as developing leadership bench-strength, new venture acceleration, senior executive on-boarding, top team development, and corporate diversity strategy.

Geno has worked extensively in non-profit and government settings, such as the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Commerce and the Maryland Circuit Courts. In addition, he was the designer and faculty director for the Noyce Leadership Institute, (focused on science centers) and presently leads the Stanford Medicine Leadership Academy (for leaders in biomedical sciences – see http://med.stanford.edu/smla).

Prior to running his own business, Geno was a professor in the areas of leadership, negotiation, innovation with the Carey Program in Entrepreneurship at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and also served as JHU’s Director of Organization Development and Diversity from 1998 until 2004.

Outside the United States, he has consulted with the Peking University, University of Iceland, University of Lodz (Poland), Ministry of Health for the Republic of Kenya and in the U.K. for the Cambridge Management Center and the Oxford Psychologists Forum. Since 2016 he has been leading a high-performing teams’ intervention throughout India for power systems and engine divisions of Cummins, Inc.

Geno is the author of several popular management development materials that are based on an interpersonal relations instrument known as the FIRO-B, including Introduction to the FIRO-B in Organizations, The Leadership Report Using the FIRO-B and MBTI, and Participating in Teams. He is also the author or co-author of several chapters in books and of research articles appearing in Leadership Quarterly, Mt. Eliza Business Review (Australia), Journal of Venture Management, Journal of Consulting Psychology, and the Annual Review of Research on Quality Management.

Geno received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Adult Development and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Rochester. He is a member of the Executive Coaching Roundtable (www.executivecoachingrountable.com) and former member of the Diversity Leadership Forum, and the Board of Directors for the Management Assistance Group. Geno resides in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Priya Singh - Chief Strategy Officer, Stanford Medicine & Senior Associate Dean, Strategy and Communications, Stanford School of Medicine

Priya Singh joined Stanford Medicine in 2013. Priya currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer for Stanford Medicine overseeing enterprise strategy for Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children’s Health and the School of Medicine. Stanford Medicine is a $8-billion-a-year academic health center. Priya oversees Strategic Planning, Global Strategy, Public Relations and Communications. She led Stanford Medicine’s first aligned strategic plan bringing together the research, education and clinical care missions and highlighting Stanford Medicine’s revolutionary vision on Precision Health, which focuses on prediction and prevention. Previously, she was Assistant Dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she was responsible for the GSB’s Global Innovation Programs. Before coming to Stanford University, Priya held marketing management roles at Oracle Corporation, Respond.com and Levi Strauss & Co.