Faculty Focus Newsletter

January 2025 | Issue 12

Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dean, College of Medicine

Vice President for Clinical Affairs, Howard University

Happy New Year Colleagues!!

I'm looking forward to a great new year full of peace, academic productivity, and patience.

I know you will remember that we are launching a new Center for Innovation jointly with the College of Architecture and Engineering. We are continuing to move forward and are currently hiring the positions that will fill our Center for Innovation. These include a director, a data manager, a biostatistician, and a program manager. Please look forward to further details once those hires are complete.

We are also making progress on our new Institute for Precision Medicine and Minority Health. We are beginning a phase zero of this project in partnership with Lilly corporation and will be excited to announce details as they are forthcoming.

I am pleased and excited to announce that two of our own interim Associate Deans have been placed in permanent positions. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Marjorie Gondré-Lewis and Dr. Daniel Larbi.

Marjorie C. Gondré-Lewis, Ph.D.

Professor of Neuroscience,

Department of Anatomy,

Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Dr. Gondré-Lewis has served as the interim Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) for more than 18 months. She now holds this permanent position. Dr. Gondré-Lewis has done an outstanding job in planning events for faculty development including our annual faculty retreat. She continues to provide outstanding opportunities and communicate those to our faculty. She leads our new faculty orientation which has been very well received. Please continue to support her office and the work she does for all the faculty. Dr Gondré-Lewis and all her efforts is definitely one of the keys to our success here in the College of Medicine.

Daniel A. Larbi, M.D., FACP

Associate Professor,

Department of Internal Medicine,

Associate Dean for

Graduate Education and DIO

Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

Dr. Daniel Larbi has served as the interim Associate Dean and designated institutional official (DIO) for Graduate Medical Education for more than the past 18 months. I am pleased that he has accepted this as a permanent position. Dr. Larbi was trained in the residency program here at Howard University and has been a loyal member of the Howard faculty and now leads the charge to enhance and enrich our current residency programs. Dr. Larbi also plans to expand the number of residency programs to provide more minority physicians in these United States of America. Dr. Larbi has done an outstanding job as the interim and I look forward to his continued success.

I would like to introduce Dr. Carla Davis who is our new department chair for the Department of Pediatrics! Dr. Davis comes to us from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX where she was the Division Chief for Allergy and Immunology in the department of Pediatrics at the Texas Children's Hospital. Dr. Davis has extensive experience with allergy diagnosis and treatment, specifically in minority groups of children and adolescents. In addition to her pediatric residency program and her allergy and immunology fellowship at Baylor, she has completed training in clinical research for AIDS. Dr. Davis attended Howard University as an undergraduate and went on to complete her medical school training at at Duke University. Over her career time, she has amassed over $3,000,000 in funding for her research, over 110 publications and has received multiple honors and awards including a Fulbright scholarship. Please join me in welcoming Dr. Carla Davis to our Howard University family.