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Harvard Medical School
The Office for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School was created to promote increased recruitment, retention and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty at Harvard Medical School and to oversee all diversity activities involving Harvard Medical School faculty, trainees, students and staff. The Office seeks to preserve the Harvard tradition of excellence in medicine and science by amplifying the search for, and support of, well-trained faculty, while creating a cadre of medical professionals reflecting the larger community that we serve.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
The Center for Faculty Development and Diversity at Brigham and Women's Hospital provides a comprehensive and coordinated approach to career advancement and professional development of all faculty across the academic continuum. Within the Center is the Office for Multicultural Faculty Careers, the Office for Postdoctoral and Research Careers and the Office for Women’s Careers. The Office for Multicultural Careers assists departments and programs in outreach and recruiting efforts aimed at under represented minority candidates; facilitates the academic promotions of under represented minorities; and provides support for professional development, career planning, and mentoring of minority faculty.
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We Gratefully Acknowledge Foundation Support:
Aetna Foundation
The Aetna Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Aetna Inc. The Foundation helps build healthy communities by promoting volunteerism, forming partnerships and funding initiatives that improve the quality of life where our employees and customers live and work.
The Sun Hill Foundation
Founded in 1991 by the Malloy Family, the Sun Hill Foundation is dedicated to investing in initiatives that serve populations both here and abroad. The Foundation’s program interests include environmental preservation, education of youth in the arts, local communities and Jewish-affiliated institutions throughout the world. Its community efforts focus on counseling, legal services, literacy and health.
The John and Sophie Ottens Foundation
The John and Sophie Ottens Foundation was organized in part to support the education of Native Americans from the four-corner states (Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado) to become nurses, other health professionals, professional teachers, and social workers.
Mohegan Sun
Based in Uncasville, CT, the Mohegan Tribe of Indians founded the Mohegan Sun Foundation to support various community outreach efforts that would serve its population. The Mohegan Sun Foundation funds local programs and focuses on organizations such as hospitals and homeless shelters.
Alumni SPOTLIGHT
James Lamouche – FDSRP 1995
James recognized FDSRP as a program pioneered by medical students dedicated to giving back to the native community. His fondest memories from his summer in Boston extend beyond the lab and clinical shadowing experiences, to those of the “friendships and sense of community” he felt while he was in Boston. James likens his desire for community to his experiences in his hometown of Grouard, Alberta, a small community on the north shore of Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta, Canada. This area boasts beauty while at the same time forces its members to face the very real hardships of poverty, poor housing, addiction and disempowerment.
James credits FDSRP with providing him important skills to make contributions to the health and well being of indigenous peoples throughout the US and Canada. James says he will continue the works he does now “to make the way a little easier for those that come behind me. Which I feel was one of the best of many lessons that I was able to take from my time with FDSRP.”
Currently, James is involved in ethical guidelines for research around tradition, indigenous knowledge and medicines, and working with organizations to protect and promotion traditional healing practices. Additionally, James is working with the Blue Quills First Nations College to assist in the development of a Health Science Program that attracts and graduates greater numbers of indigenous students.