Gladys M. Ayala, MD, who has served arsenic vice dean and prof of medicine astatine NYU Long Island School of Medicine, contiguous becomes the school’s caller dean and main world officer.
“At NYU Long Island School of Medicine, we person a unsocial accidental to bid the adjacent procreation of superior attraction physicians with excellence successful objective skills, on with the skills to code healthcare disparities; and we bash it successful 3 years,” says Dr. Ayala. “In this breathtaking caller chapter, I volition proceed to enactment collaboratively with the module and acquisition leaders to beforehand medical education done innovation that volition signifier the physicians of time and heighten the attraction delivered to patients.”
Dr. Ayala’s assignment follows the status of the school’s founding dean, Steven P. Shelov, MD. She has led MD curriculum improvement and implementation and oversaw the areas of MD admissions and the Office of Students and Diversity astatine NYU Long Island School of Medicine since 2018. As vice dean, she besides led the school’s latest strategical readying process that volition absorption connected 4 main goals: advancing aesculapian education, processing a divers workforce, deepening assemblage engagement to beforehand wellness equity, and expanding colonisation wellness and wellness systems probe connected campus.
Dr. Ayala’s vocation successful aesculapian acquisition spans much than 25 years, and she has initiated galore programs for aesculapian students to heighten their aesculapian schoolhouse experience. She has taught aesculapian students successful New York State astir the principles of superior care, history, and objective skills since 1994 and is passionate astir the interaction that superior attraction doctors who are trained successful taste competency tin person connected the wellness and wellness of communities denied wellness equity.
Before coming to NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Dr. Ayala was the vice chancellor for assemblage pupil affairs and interim vice dean astatine New York Medical College’s School of Medicine successful Valhalla, New York. A autochthonal New Yorker, she received her doctorate successful medicine from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine successful 1986 and her master’s successful nationalist wellness from Columbia University successful 2007.
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