15th Annual Celebrating Diversity 2022

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Honorary Chair Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH, is the George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation and the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative. Additionally, Dr. Simon serves as the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement. She is also an expert in implementation science, women’s health across the lifespan, minority health, community engagement, and health equity. Throughout her career, Dr. Simon has been recognized with numerous awards for her substantial contribution to excellence in health equity scholarship, women’s health, and mentorship, including her recent election to the National Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Simon has received the Presidential Award in Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentorship and is a Presidential Leadership Scholar. She is also a former member of the US Preventive Services Task Force and serves on the NIH Office of Research in Women’s Health Advisory Committee.
Dean’s Faculty Award for Diversity and Inclusion Diana N. Carvajal, MD, MPH, is a practicing family physician, NIH-funded clinician-researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is Director of Reproductive Health Education in Family Medicine (RHEDI) and co-leads the department’s research division. She completed her residency at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY, her MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her Primary Care Health Services Research fellowship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In her research, Dr. Carvajal focuses on addressing reproductive health inequities for the most marginalized communities and employs lenses of Reproductive Justice and Intersectionality to understand how clinicians can best support and communicate with their patients about important reproductive health decisions. In the department of Family and Community Medicine, she has helped lead and develop the residency’s social justice curriculum and is a faculty advisor for the residency’s Health Justice Track. At the institutional level, Dr. Carvajal serves on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Medical Student Lecture Review Committee, and is a mentor for students in the UMB chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA). She also served on the committee that succeeded in eliminating race from kidney function estimates across the University of Maryland Medical System. In addition to her academic and clinical roles within UMSOM, she is also the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Strategic Planning for the national RHEDI program based at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. In this role, she leads the development and implementation of programs to diversify the reproductive health workforce in family medicine, and in addition, leads an on-line, nationally distributed social and reproductive justice-based curriculum. Dr. Carvajal believes that her academic work is firmly grounded in her clinical care, teaching, and institutional service. Each of these realms overlap with the others and all of them fuel her passion for the work.
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