Neurologist has long record of medical education service at HMS

Following an intensive national search, Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley has announced that Bernard Chang will become the School’s next dean for medical education, effective July 31.

TO: HMS Faculty Involved in Medical Student Education

FROM: Edward M. Hundert, MD

SUBJECT: Promotion of Dr. John L. Dalrymple to Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and RFA for Two New Leadership Roles in Medical Student Education

I am very pleased to announce the promotion of John L. Dalrymple, MD ‘91, Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology and Medical Education, to Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education in the MD Program at HMS. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Dalrymple, who has been the...

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The first “Dreamer” to be awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship is finally poised to attend the University of Oxford after years of uncertainty about whether the U.S. would allow him to return home as a DACA recipient.

This past year, as a new attending physician in pediatric gastroenterology at Boston Children’s Hospital, Dennis Spencer has been juggling his clinical responsibilities and his clinical research, studies which he hopes “may unearth a new prebiotic that would allow us to bolster the gut’s microbiome and protect those at risk for opportunistic infections.”

Early in my medical school career, before I became accustomed to the marble buildings and grandiose paintings of physicians on the walls, I attended the unveiling of a new portrait. Depicting William Hinton, a Black physician known for groundbreaking work in syphilis treatment, the addition garnered attention from faculty and students alike. We stood in the large room, surrounded by portraits of mostly White physicians, as Hinton’s image was revealed.

I exist in parallel universes. In one, I am a medical student and campus leader. In the other, I am a member of a systemically oppressive society and steward of my ancestors’ sacrifices. In both, I exist as a Black woman — and sometimes that identity makes these two universes clash.

Stories of people committed to public purpose and to making a positive difference in communities throughout the country.  Read the full story in the Harvard Gazette.  Read more about To Serve Better

Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley has approved a recommendation from a Faculty Council Subcommittee on Artwork and Cultural Representations task force to rename the Oliver Wendell Holmes academic society in honor of the late William Augustus Hinton, MD 1912, an HMS clinical professor of bacteriology and immunology. Read the full article by M.R.F. Buckley.  Read more about Winds of Change

Thirty-two years after earning her MD from Harvard Medical School, Andrea Reid, MD ’88, MPH ’01, has returned as the new associate dean for student and multicultural affairs in the Program in Medical Education. She will also serve as director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs, succeeding Alvin Poussaint, who established ORMA and led it for 50 years, until his retirement in June 2019.