The Center for Diversity and Inclusion supports the careers of faculty and clinical fellows underrepresented in medicine (UiM) through our faculty development awards program, which includes the Physician/Scientist Development Award (PSDA) and the Clinician-Teacher Development Award (CTDA). Since 2004, 80 awards totaling close to $12 million in funding have been awarded. Although these awards have been historically funded by ECOR and the MGPO, the MGH Structural Equity Plan which is fully integrated into MGB United Against Racism, has allocated funding to expand CDI and this award program. As a result, CDI sponsored 3 additional recipients, for a total of nine awards - 3 CTDA and 6 PSDA.

Please mark your calendars for our annual MGH President, MGPO President & Center for Diversity and Inclusion Welcome and Recognition Reception on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, to honor our 2022 recipients and celebrate all past recipients. Invitations with the event time and location will be sent separately.

We encourage you to explore resources from our colleagues in MGRI Division of Clinical Research. Browse DCR's Suggested Courses to sign up for role-specific and skills-based courses to advance your career.

Please click here for a recording of the Chester Pierce Society Speaker Series, Thursday, April, 14, 2022, on Democratizing Cancer Diagnostic & Profiling Tools Through Nanotechnologies with presenter, Cesar Castro, MD, MMSc, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Co-Faculty Director for Research, Center for Diversity and Inclusion.

The Disparities Solutions Center, with funding support from the MGH Equity and Community Health Office, is launching the Secondary Mentorship Program for Diverse Research Faculty. This program will kick off on June 27^th as a small pilot program for one year. The program will support four junior MGH faculty from historically underrepresented groups, who will receive mentorship for one year from secondary research mentors. The secondary mentor is an essential resource for the tenure-track faculty member. In addition to helping the tenure-track faculty member adjust to the environment of the department and the school, the secondary mentor should be available as needed to provide another perspective on questions related to scholarly expectations and progress, work/life balance, and personal issues.

To learn more about the program and see if you would be a qualified candidate, visit the Disparities Solutions Center website. Applications are due Friday, May 20, 2022, 5pm.

Click here to see the Executive Committee on Research's (ECOR) intranet site for external limited submissions and internal funding opportunities.

Award-winning author & Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David in conversation with world-renowned humanitarian leader & Founder of the Art of Living Foundation Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Join us for an inspiring conversation on cultivating emotional resilience and balance - no matter what! 

Despite extensive work to improve gender equity in academic medicine, women continue to lag behind men in promotions and leadership positions. This inequity was intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic which disproportionately affected women who were tasked with taking on increased childcare and household responsibilities and/or the care of ailing relatives.

Because of COVID-19-related restrictions, many Grand Rounds and Visiting Professorships are being conducted virtually. This change provided an opportunity to promote the participation of more women in Visiting Professorships by removing the barriers that often prevent women from traveling.

The Center for Faculty Development’s Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award was created in this context and, given its success, has continued. This award will be presented to women faculty clinicians, educators, researchers, and postdocs at MGH who have shown exceptional promise as leaders in their field and whose careers would specifically benefit from speaking, mentoring and networking opportunities at the national or international level. Click here for more information.

This year, our annual Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit will offer virtual programming from Wednesday, May 25, through Friday, May 27.

This year’s Summit theme is Name it, Act on it, Change it,

in conjunction with the 2022 AREI Conference theme. Through keynote speakers and facilitated conversations, the DE&I Summit will explore how to promote equity within our teams, departments and institutions.

The agenda and more information about this year’s Summit will be shared later in May. You can learn more about our DE&I Summits over the years on the Summit Pulse page. Please email the Office of DE&I if you have any questions.

The 2022 Leadership and Faculty Development Program Conference and Minority Health Policy Annual Meeting, hosted by HMS DICP and cosponsored by HMS affiliated hospital DEI and faculty development offices, will be held virtually, May 3^rd through May 6^th. Join us for rich discussions with clinicians and scholars about advancing health equity and addressing health disparities impacting the nation’s most vulnerable populations.

Click here to register | View details for the LFDP Conference and Minority Health Policy Annual Meeting

EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE – OPEN TO ALL

MINORITY HEALTH POLICY ANNUAL MEETING – OPEN TO ALL

Practicum Presentations: Commonwealth Fund Fellows in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University, Joseph L. Henry Oral Health Fellow in Minority Health Policy, and HMS Faculty Fellows

THE REEDE SCHOLARS 13^TH ANNUAL HEALTH EQUITY SYMPOSIUM – OPEN TO ALL

CAREER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING – OPEN TO HARVARD COMMUNITY ONLY

 Communication as an Essential Leadership Skill

please contact Jackie Wright at jackie_wright@hms.harvard.edu in advance of your participation. Please note that the university will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.

ECOR received over 180 abstracts for the ECOR Poster of Distinction Award. Two of our SRTP Alumni received Poster of Distinction Awards. Chris Alba is currently a Research Assistant in the Department of Medicine, however as an SRTP student in 2019, he was in the Department of Surgery with preceptor, Thoralf M Sundt, MD and Junior Preceptor, Philicia Moonsamy, MD.  Nichola is a graduate of the SRTP Class of 2021. She is a medical student at Case Western who continues to work with her preceptor, Dr. John Petrozza, MD.

Joe Betancourt, MD, MPH was featured in Broadcast MGB news on Wednesday. Tailoring dermatologic care to patients with diverse skin types and sharing across the system. Broadcast MGB. 

Reflecting on systemic racism in medicine 20 years after release of 'Unequal Treatment' report – WBUR - Quotes MGH physician Joe Betancourt, MD, MPH.

CityLine: March 27th, segment 2: Highest court in the land - WCVB - CDI Associate Director, Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, MD was interviewed.

Advances in understanding the molecular basis of clonal hematopoiesis was published in the trends in Molecular Medicine journal by Dr. David Alagpulinsa along with others.

Intersectional Analysis of U.S. Medical Faculty Diversity over Four Decades published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Sophia Kamran and others on April 7 2022.

Announcements, events or awards to share? Email cdi@mgh.harvard.edu