Dr. Said Ibrahim Appointed First Vice Dean of Diversity and Inclusion

NEW YORK, November 29, 2018 / PRNewswire / – Dr. Said Ibrahim, a renowned physician-researcher who is investigating why health outcomes vary across demographic groups, has been named Senior Vice-Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Weill Cornell Medicine, effective January 2. Mr. Ibrahim will lead the Diversity and Inclusion Office's efforts to unify diversity initiatives and promote a stronger culture of equity and belonging in the community. whole institution.

Weill Cornell Medicine Office for Diversity and Inclusion is committed to helping faculty and students whose diverse backgrounds can inspire new perspectives and approaches to improving human health. In his new role, Mr. Ibrahim will work to achieve the strategic vision of Mr. Augustine M.K Choi, Stephen and Suzanne Weiss, Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, who has made diversity an essential pillar of the institution's mission, alongside clinical care, research and education. To this end, the Diversity and Inclusion Office will encourage institutional initiatives to recruit, retain and nurture minority physicians, scientists and trainees from underrepresented communities in medicine, as well as women and people identifying as lesbian, gay and bisexual. and transgender. The office will also strive to support students, faculty and trainees at every stage of their careers, striving to create a diverse and inclusive environment in clinics, laboratories and classrooms.

"Diversity is essential for the health workforce and is a core value of Weill Cornell Medicine," said Dr. Choi. "Bringing together the unique perspectives and capabilities of our university community not only leads to innovation, but also allows us to provide the best care to a diverse population and the best education to a diverse body of students." Dr. Ibrahim is the ideal person to advance this important institutional and ensure an environment of equality and inclusion in Weill Cornell Medicine. "

"This role and the mission of the Diversity and Inclusion Office really touch me personally," said Dr. Ibrahim, Senior Manager of the Division of Health Care Innovation and Science in the United States. Health Policy and Research Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, emigrated from Somalia in the mid-1980s to advance his studies. "Having grown up in East AfricaI understand for myself that inequities in access to health care can have a significant impact on people's lives. Diversity and inclusivity – things that people passionately fought for in the civil rights movement – allowed someone like me to attend the Faculty of Medicine at United States. It is important for me to maintain and develop this type of opportunity for all. "

Weill Cornell Medicine has long been a champion of diversity advocacy in the health workforce, having implemented several programs that expose women, minority students and economically disadvantaged students to opportunities for education and careers in medicine and science. The summer research fellowship program, established in 1969, reached more than 1,200 pre-medical students who sought physician employment; In 2015, almost 83% of participants had been admitted to the faculty of medicine. Weill Cornell Medicine Advancing Cornell Career Experiences for Science Students (ACCESS) and the Lab Open Doors summer program each celebrate their 25th anniversary this year and serve as pathways for doctoral and joint doctoral and medical degrees. PhD. ACCESS has 216 former students; The bridges have 309.

To build on this momentum, Dr. Choi launched many initiatives over the past year to promote diversity and inclusion across the campus. Among them is the newly established Diversity Week, an annual event designed to introduce leading academics and initiatives to increase diversity and reduce disparities in health care at Weill Cornell Medicine and Health Canada. national scale. Mr. Ibrahim participated in the inaugural ceremony last April, which included more than 25 activities ranging from scientific sessions to workshops. Dr. Choi also created the Dean's Research Awards on Diversity and Health Disparity for researchers working to improve the health of women and underrepresented minorities and to achieve equity. health at the local and global levels; and the Dean for Diversity Scholarships, which provide annual scholarships to two undergraduate medical students with financial need.

Mr. Ibrahim and his team from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which includes Associate Deans of Diversity and Inclusion Linnie Golightly and Dr. Rache Simmonsand Associate Deans for Diversity and Student Life Dr. Marcus Lambert and Elizabeth Wilson-Anstey, Ph.D. – will work to improve these initiatives. They will unify the other diversity programs within the institution to maximize their overall impact and enable a continuous assessment of their success.

These efforts will lay the groundwork for attracting and developing a new group of diverse faculty members with the same institutional ideals. In collaboration with the new School Mentorship Academy and Center of Excellence on Diversity, which operates under the auspices of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, the office will seek to nurture the talents of minorities and women at all career levels through mentoring and other activities. Diversity leaders will also strive to increase the representation of women teachers at the senior academic and management levels.

It is equally important to further promote a diverse group of students whose perspectives are essential to fostering scientific innovation and eliminating health disparities to ensure access to the best care for all. About 20% of Weill Cornell Medical College's medical students are from underrepresented communities in medicine. The Weill Cornell School of Medical Sciences has also strengthened diversity efforts, with an average of 25% of national PhD students from underrepresented communities in science.

"We want our doctors, researchers and trainees to be representative of the populations we serve, so that patients see us as a reflection of their identity," said Dr. Ibrahim, also vice-chair of the Department of Policy and Research. health matter. development and strategy. "Our diversity initiatives will help us achieve this goal and position ourselves as a leader in the health care sector, while enriching the experiences of our university community."

About Dr. Said Ibrahim
Dr. Ibrahim is a clinician-scientist funded by the National Institutes of Health whose research focuses on unequal access to health care and the quality of minority and underserved communities. Previously, he had directed a research program on racial variations in the use of surgical care and had identified the lower preference of minority-owned patients for surgery as the main reason for this disparity. His research has informed national policy and led to more than 130 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Annals of Internal Medicine. He has received the Harold Amos Faculty Development Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Career Development and Research Awards from both beginner and advanced health services. Dr. Ibrahim has also been a board member of the National Institute of NIH for Minority Health and Disparities in Health.

Dr. Ibrahim earned his bachelor's degree Oberlin College and his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine at Cleveland, Ohio. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He then followed the clinical effectiveness program of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he also earned a master's degree in public health and then a master's degree in business administration from MIT Sloan School of Management. He served as a faculty member at Western affair 1996-2001 and at the University of Pittsburgh from 2001 to 2010, when he was appointed professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine's University of Pennsylvania and chief of medicine at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. For 20 years, Dr. Ibrahim provided primary care to US veterans receiving care from the VA Health System, one of the country's most important social protection systems. In 2012, Mr. Ibrahim became co-director of the National Center for Innovation for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a position he held until his recruitment into Weill Cornell Medicine at February 2018 as Senior Manager, Science and Innovation Division, Health Care Delivery, Department of Health Care Policy and Research. As Chief, Dr. Ibrahim is setting up a health services research team whose mission is to study how to take advantage of technological and care innovations to improve not only the efficiency and effectiveness of health services. the quality of health care, but also equity.

Weill Cornell Medicine
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