Profiles

Addressing health care disparities through research and community engagement is a core value of the School of Medicine, the Department of Surgery and its Division of Public Health Sciences.

To attract and retain faculty of diverse backgrounds and talents, the department embraces promotion criteria that reward contributions in any of its three missions: education, patient care and research.

Urologic surgeon Sam Bhayani, MD, is a product of concerted departmental efforts to build successful leaders and provide leadership opportunities.

To attract and retain faculty of diverse backgrounds and talents, the department embraces promotion criteria that reward contributions in any of its three missions: education, patient care and research.

To foster a healthy environment for attracting and retaining young talent, the department expects all faculty to be strong mentors. To support that effort, the department provides resources to develop these skills.

Across the department, formal efforts over the past decade have promoted psychological safety — the concept that members of a team should feel safe sharing ideas, concerns and mistakes.

The department fosters excellence in part by recruiting diversity in all forms.

[caption id="attachment_622" align="alignleft" width="150"] Rebecca Aft, MD, PhD[/caption]

The department is making deliberate efforts to ensure that the strong diversity of its patient population is represented in its clinical trials — a necessity for ensuring that medical research benefits everyone.

Institutional support for work-life balance fosters work satisfaction among faculty, allowing them to contribute on flexible terms.