Volume 20 - Winter 2005

FEATURED STORY

Diversity Town Forum at Harvard Medical School

MINORITY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Established in 1990, the DCP Minority Faculty Development Program seeks to: increase the number of minority faculty at Harvard Medical School; increase the number of minority physicians and scientists who undertake their post-graduate medical education at one of the 17 Harvard Medical School-affiliated institutions; establish model programs for the development of minority faculty with an emphasis on mentoring and leadership; and create programs designed to reach out to the pre-college and college populations with the goal of bringing outstanding, underrepresented
minority students into the pipeline.

World Health Forum Series

Communications and Presentation Skills Seminar with Claudyne Wilder

Celebrating Alvin F. Poussaint, MD

Barsam Kasravi, MD and Jacqueline Nwando Onyejekwe, MD
win AMA Foundation Award

From the Visiting Clerkship Program to the Commonwealth
Fund’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

HMS/HSPH Student Receives AAMC Nickens Award

Boston Public Schools Awarded $12.5 Million Grant to
Retrain Science Teachers; HMS to Assist Effort

Career Development Series Addresses Federal Funding Opportunities

Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities™ Announcement

Middle School Students Explore the Longwood Medical Area

Skills Workshops for College and High School Students

COMMUNITY OUTREACH
The DCP Office of Community Outreach Programs, established in 1999, builds and supports partnerships among Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the community. These partnerships seek to improve the health of the community and, in particular, address issues of health and healthcare disparity based on racial or societal inequalities. The Office of Community Outreach Programs also focuses on the underrepresentation of minorities within the workforce, with an emphasis on careers in healthcare and the biomedical sciences. OCOP also works closely with the following entities within Harvard Medical School: Minority Faculty Development Program, Office of Enrichment Programs, Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs.

Dean’s Community Service Awards/Ebert Community Service Day

Community Service Awards Nominees 2004

Medical Students Partner with Mission Hill Community Activists
to Sponsor Town Hall Meeting on Health

CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Awarded to Harvard Medical School in September 2002, and under the direction of the Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, the Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities (COE) seeks to enhance the academic performance of underrepresented minority (URM) students, strengthen efforts to support the cultural competency preparedness of faculty, residents, and students, and to expand current models for underrepresented faculty development and student/faculty research that focuses on issues of minority health and health disparities. The COE's six programmatic areas of focus are: Student Performance, Faculty Development, Information Resources and Cultural Competence, Faculty and Student Research, Student Training in Providing Health Care Services, and Pipeline Programs.

Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH Appointed as Division Chief, Trauma, Burns and Surgical Critical Care and Director,
Center for Surgery and Public Health

News and Professional Development Announcements

NEWS FROM OUR COLLEAGUES
Harvard Medical School has nearly 6,489 full-time faculty working in eight academic departments based at the School’s Boston quadrangle or in one of 47 academic departments at 18 affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes.

We welcome, and actively seek, articles from our colleagues at any of our affiliated institutions. We are delighted to showcase here a number of very interesting initiatives that have taken place at some of our affiliated institutions and across several Harvard schools in recent months.

Highlighting Cultural Competence Education at the AAMC Annual Meeting

AAMC Launches New Faculty Development Newsletter

Center for Faculty Development Programs

HMS graduates 9 from the Boston Health Care and Research Training Institute

Culturally Competent Care Education Committee (CCCEC) and Office for Diversity and Community Partnership Launch New On-Line Resource Center

New Postdoctoral Center at DFCI Helps to Educate,
Acclimate Young Scientists

Recent Promotions at HMS

Harvard University Announces Task Forces on Women Faculty
and Women in Science and Engineering

New Financial Aid Initiative Shows Solid ‘Early’ Results

National Science Foundation Report on Gender and
Academic Scientists’ Careers

Announcement from the Office of Minority Health at the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Augustus A. White, III, MD, PhD is Honored Twice by
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

We welcome, and actively seek, articles from our colleagues at any of our affiliated institutions. We are delighted to showcase here a number of very interesting initiatives that have taken place at some of our affiliated institutions and across several Harvard schools in recent months.

EVENTS
The Minority Faculty Development Program's Diversity and Community Outreach Calendar posts events that cater to the minority faculty, staff, students, and community. It also serves as a tool to demonstrate the ways in which programs are seeking to facilitate change and growth.

If you would like to post events on the on-line Diversity and Community Outreach Calendar, please visit www.mfdp.med.harvard.edu/calendar

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