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Culture Corner
A message from our Culture & Community Building Leaders
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Tamara Dunn, MD
Wendy Caceres, MD
Stephanie Harman, MD
Arghavan Salles, MD
Our Mission
Our Mission
To build a community in which all people – including those who have historically been marginalized – can thrive, we will embrace human diversity and pursue practices that advance equity, inclusion, belonging, access, and justice.
Our Values
We are committed to reflecting and celebrating diversity, educating ourselves, creating a sense of belonging, establishing an anti-racist culture and moving toward justice.
Our Vision
To reach our collective potential through these actions:
- Equitable recruitment, retention, and promotion of faculty, staff, fellows, and residents;
- inclusive environments;
- representation of all in education activities fostering an ever deepening understanding of medical history, allyship, and justice;
- application of a health equity lens for research and scholarly work; and
- community engagement/clinical care of vulnerable populations.
Stanford Medicine Vision
We are proud to support the Stanford Medicine Vision:
Achieve inclusive excellence and health equity across Stanford Medicine and beyond.
Council
Key Initiatives
Chair Diversity Investigator Awards
Our Chair Diversity Investigator Award program provides four grants of $50,000 each to young investigators whose research is focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and the elimination of health care disparities. Applications open annually in the summer.
Faculty Lens Advisors
In 2019, we created an innovative program to improve the diversity of our candidate pools, utilizing Faculty LENS Advisors (LENS = Leading to Enhance Excellence in the Navigation of Searches.) These are professors in our department, who have been given both funded protected time (20%) and training, along with staff support, to better identify diverse candidates for our professoriate searches. Learn more
Health Equity Education
Health Equity Education efforts are dedicated to training a new generation of leaders in medicine and science who will actively promote health equity and work to reduce our society’s devastating health disparities. Learn more
Resources and Ways to Get Involved
Resources
We’ve compiled a list of resources and trainings to help you learn, grow, find support, get involved, and make an impact. Learn more
Get Involved
Department of Medicine events are open to all. We support many different organizations. People of all backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate. Join a council, submit an idea, partner with us, and learn more about the work we’re doing.
Visit this link to subscribe to our Culture and Community Building Events email listserv (domculturecommunityevents@lists.stanford.edu).