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Honorary ChairMaria L. Soto-Greene, MD, MS-HPEd, FACP isProfessor and Executive Vice Dean at Rutgers NewJersey Medical School (NJMS). Initially, Dr. Soto-Greene focused on the care of the critically illpatient, honing in on the significance of thephysician/patient communication, and the impact onvulnerable patients and their loved ones. In hercurrent role, she oversees all aspects of undergraduatemedical education (admissions, student affairs,education), faculty affairs, professional development,accreditation, and diversity affairs.Dr. Soto-Greene is committed to advancing theschool’s health equity and social justice education,and community service. She has been funded byfederal and private agencies since the early 1990’s and has passionately worked tocreate unparalleled opportunities for thousands of individuals underrepresented inmedicine and science. These programs support students at the pre-college levelthrough medical school faculty, contributing to career advancement and cultivatingthe next generation of social justice champions. Equity, diversity, and inclusion isthreaded into everything that she does.Equally important, Dr. Soto-Greene has been a leader in disseminating best practicesto other medical schools. She is a past Chair for the Association of American MedicalColleges (AAMC) Group on Diversity and Inclusion and a past President of theHispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools. As part of the AAMC MedicalEducation Senior Leaders group, she is currently on the Rapid Action Anti-RacismTaskforce. Dr. Soto-Greene has been the proud recipient of numerous awardsrecognizing her contributions to advancing diversity in academic medicine includingthe 2014 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Diversity Award, the 2017 EdwardJ. Ill Physician’s Award, and the 2019 Rutgers University Clement A. Price HumanDignity Award. Most notably, the AAMC awarded Dr. Soto-Greene with the 2019Herbert W. Nickens Award for her exemplary contributions to promoting socialjustice in medical education and health equities.Dr. Soto-Greene received her B.S. degree in Medical Technology from DouglassCollege, M.D. degree from New Jersey Medical School, completed her internalmedicine training at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey where she also servedas Chief Medical Resident, and obtained her Masters in Health Professions Educationat the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She was also inducted as a facultymember into the NJMS Beta Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) HonorMedical Society in 2001. Dr. Soto-Greene is a board certified internist and currentlyserves as the LCME Faculty Accreditation Lead for New Jersey Medical School.
Dean’s Faculty Award for Diversity and InclusionDiane Marie M. St. George, PhD is an AssociateProfessor in the Department of Epidemiology andPublic Health (EPH) at the University of MarylandSchool of Medicine (SOM). Dr. St. George joinedthe SOM faculty in 2008 and currently serves asthe director of the Master of Public Health (MPH)Program and the EPH Vice Chair of AcademicPrograms. She holds a BS in Psychology, a BS inZoology and an MA in Health Education from theUniversity of Maryland College Park and a PhD inEpidemiology from the University of NorthCarolina Chapel Hill School of Public Health.She completed a Fogarty-funded post-doctoralfellowship at the Institute for Preventive andClinical Medicine in Bratislava, Slovakia and a Kellogg-funded post-doctoralfellowship in community-based participatory research at the University of NorthCarolina School of Public Health.Dr. St. George is committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion and hastried to exemplify that through her service, academic leadership, teaching andresearch. She is a member of the SOM Diversity Advisory Council and a formerSOM representative to the University Diversity Advisory Council. She currentlyserves as the Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Associationof Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). ASPPH is the bodyrepresenting the accredited schools of public health and MPH programs housedwithin schools of medicine or other health professions, like the UMSOM.Dr. St. George is proud to lead the dedicated staff and faculty of the SOM MPHProgram. The program strives to attract and retain a student body thatexemplifies diversity across a number of domains. Further, she wants to ensurethat every student who enters our doors feels welcome, nurtured, supported andprepared for graduation and beyond. As such, she teaches courses to MPHstudents in their first and last semesters, helping to lay the framework for theirexperience at both milestones in the program.Throughout her career, Dr. St. George’s research interests have focused on thehealth of underserved populations who suffer a disproportionate burden ofdisease by virtue of race, socioeconomic status, place of residence, immigrantstatus and other factors that place them at a disadvantage. She is very interestedin the school environment as an opportunity for health promotion and iscurrently funded to work within a Baltimore school to explore the use of theYouth Participatory Action Research Framework to identify and advanceinterventions to address health issues of concern to students.
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