15th Annual Celebrating Diversity 2022

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.