Michael Shannon, MD, MPH, Excellence in Mentoring Award

2018 Shannon Award Recipient:
Daniele Ölveczky, MD, MS
Harvard Medical Faculty Physician, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Inclusion Officer, Department of Medicine, BIDMC; Linde Fellow 2018-2019; Senior Advisor Cross Cultural Interest Group - HMS Academy; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ölveczky attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she obtained an MD and a Master’s degree in neuroscience. She completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center followed by a geriatrics fellowship at BIDMC and BWH. She is a hospitalist at BIDMC where she works primarily as a nocturnist. Inspired by her passion for caring for vulnerable populations, she is committed to creating an atmosphere of inclusive excellence as a means of improving patient care. As Co-Chair of the HMS Academy Cross Cultural Interest Group, she led faculty development workshops at the HMS Academy about the importance of diversity and the Hidden Curriculum in medical education, as well as negotiating racism at the bedside, which was the highest attended workshop in the decade history of the Academy. She completed her HMS Miles Shore and HMS Academy Fellowships during which she studied how to standardize the incorporation of race, religion, gender, sexual preference and ethnicity into undergraduate medical education curricula. She has been named the inaugural Officer of Inclusion for the Department of Internal Medicine at BIDMC. She will be a local lead principal investigator for the NIH sponsored trial of Bias Reduction in Medicine (BRIM) for the Department of Medicine at BIDMC. BRIM will implement interventions which have been shown to be successful in changing faculty behavior, improving department climate, and increasing the hiring of women faculty.
About the Award:
In memory of Michael Shannon, MD, MPH

The Student Mentorship Program at Harvard Medical School voted to name this mentorship award the Michael Shannon, MD, MPH, Excellence in Mentoring Award in memory of Dr. Shannon, who died in March, 2009. Dr. Shannon was a pediatrician for more than 25 years. He served as chief emeritus of Emergency Services at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and was the first African American to be named a full professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. The award was named in his honor to recognize Dr. Shannon’s contributions as a teacher and as a mentor over his two decades at Harvard Medical School. In 2016, an endowed chair was named in his honor at Boston Children’s Hospital: the Michael W. Shannon, MD, Professorship in Pediatrics in the Field of Emergency Medicine. It was bestowed on Dr. Richard Bachur, chief of emergency medicine at BCH. In addition to his accomplishments as a physician, Dr. Shannon was a former professional dancer who performed annually in the "Urban Nutcracker" and "Black Nativity". Dr. Shannon was an advocate who worked tirelessly to help improve the communities in and around Boston. In his 55 years, Dr. Shannon touched everyone he met -- and many who never had a chance to meet him in person. His passing was a great loss to the community.
Sponsored by:
HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs
Consortium of Harvard Affiliated Offices for Faculty Development and Diversity (CHADD)
The Harold Amos Society of Harvard Medical School
Past Recipients:
2017 - Alden M. Landry, MD, MPH
2017 - Dennis K. Norman, EdD, ABPP
2016 - Ira C. Chan, MD
2015 - Peggy Timothé, DDS, MPH
2014 - Alexy D. Arauz Boudreau, MD, MPH, FAAP
2012 - Elliot Meléndez, MD, FAAP
2011 - DeWayne Pursley, MD, MPH
2010 - Rhonda Bentley-Lewis, MD, MBA
2009 - Johnye Ballenger, MD
2008 - Fidencio Saldaña, MD, MPH
2007 - Christian Arbelaez, MD & Andrea Reid, MD