, /PRNewswire/ -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine has appointed nationalist diverseness innovator and exigency medicine doc Lynne M. Holden, M.D., elder subordinate dean for diverseness and inclusion (D&I). Dr. Holden, a subordinate of Einstein's module since 1996, is an accomplished person some wrong her aesculapian subject and successful her efforts to assistance diversify the aesculapian workforce.
"Through her dedication to aesculapian acquisition and D&I, some astatine Einstein and nationally, Dr. Holden has made a meaningful and affirmative interaction connected the lives of thousands of young men and women," said Gordon F. Tomaselli, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean astatine Einstein and enforcement vice president and main world serviceman astatine Montefiore Medicine. "She has intelligibly demonstrated her abilities and enactment by succeeding successful a scope of positions astatine the College of Medicine implicit the past 2 decades, making her the perfect idiosyncratic to capable this important presumption astatine Einstein."
Dr. Holden, who is prof of emergency medicine astatine Einstein and an attending doc astatine Montefiore Health System, has worked extensively with aesculapian students, residents, and module astatine the College of Medicine. In designation of her teaching excellence, she was elected to the Leo M. Davidoff Society, which honors teachers who person made important contributions to the acquisition of Einstein aesculapian students. She has served arsenic a co-chair of the admissions committee, taught successful the Introduction to Clinical Medicine people for first-year aesculapian students, and held the presumption of subordinate residency director/site manager astatine Montefiore. She continues to service connected the EM residency admissions committee.
As vice-chair for diversity, equity, and inclusion for the section of exigency medicine, Dr. Holden spearheaded the improvement of the Social EM Program, which fosters activities that exposure residents to the societal determinants of wellness successful the Bronx and empowers them to make empathetic solutions done probe and assemblage service. Since 2006, she has directed the Emergency Department Clinical Exposure and Mentoring Program, which has provided acquisition and experiential learning done volunteering and shadowing for 1,800 New York City undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students.
"I americium honored to instrumentality connected the relation of elder subordinate dean for D&I astatine Einstein," said Dr. Holden. "I look guardant to moving with my colleagues to assistance summation diversity, heighten inclusion, and beforehand equity for our existent and prospective students, staff, postdocs, and faculty, arsenic good arsenic our assemblage members."
Dr. Holden is co-founder and president of Mentoring successful Medicine, Inc., (MIM), a nationalist non-profit enactment dedicated to inspiring and preparing students to go healthcare and subject professionals successful bid to assistance destruct wellness disparities. Since its establishment, MIM has reached much than 58,000 students from simple property done aesculapian school, on with parents and educators. MIM alumni see 478 physicians from divers backgrounds. The enactment has besides introduced 8,000 students, kindergarten done 12th grade, to biomedical and healthcare careers done people presentations, signifier plays, and workshops.
Dr. Holden's galore honors see a 2007 Maybelline NY-Essence Empowerment done Education Award, a 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leader award, and the 2019 Distinguished Community Service Award from the United Hospital Fund. She has published the results of her enactment extensively and has appeared wide successful the media arsenic an adept successful mentoring and diverseness successful medicine.
Also connected the nationalist level, Dr. Holden is progressive with the American Board of Emergency Medicine arsenic a elder nationalist oral committee examiner and arsenic the National Medical Association's (NMA) contiguous past conception seat for EM. She serves connected respective nationalist committees that code workforce diverseness successful medicine, including the American Association of Medical Colleges' Action Collaborative for Black Men successful Medicine (in concern with the NMA) and the American Association of Medical Colleges Pathways Program Advisory Group. She is seat of the K-Grad Working Group wrong the Roundtable connected Black Men and Women successful Science, Engineering, and Medicine astatine the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She is besides a committee subordinate and connected the acquisition committee of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.
Dr. Holden is simply a postgraduate of Howard University and of Temple University School of Medicine. Following an internship astatine Albert Einstein Medical Center successful Philadelphia, she began her residency successful exigency medicine astatine Jacobi Medical Center, and aboriginal served arsenic main resident. After a little stint arsenic an attending doc astatine Kings County Hospital, and arsenic adjunct objective prof astatine SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, some located successful Brooklyn, Dr. Holden returned to the Bronx to articulation Einstein and service arsenic an attending doc astatine Jacobi and Montefiore. She roseate done the world ranks astatine Einstein to go a afloat prof successful EM, the 5th African American pistillate successful the United States to execute this favoritism astatine an world aesculapian center.
About Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine is 1 of the nation's premier centers for research, aesculapian acquisition and objective investigation. During the 2021-22 world year, Einstein is location to 732 M.D. students, 190 Ph.D. students, 120 students successful the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and astir 250 postdoctoral probe fellows. The College of Medicine has much than 1,900 full-time module members located connected the main field and astatine its clinical affiliates. In 2021, Einstein received much than $185 million successful awards from the National Institutes of Health. This includes the backing of major research centers at Einstein successful cancer, aging, intelligence improvement disorders, diabetes, objective and translational research, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas wherever the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts see developmental encephalon research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to trim and destruct taste and radical wellness disparities. Its concern with Montefiore, the University Hospital and world aesculapian halfway for Einstein, advances objective and translational probe to accelerate the gait astatine which caller discoveries go the treatments and therapies that payment patients. For much information, delight visit einsteinmed.org, work our blog, follow us on Twitter, similar america on Facebook, and presumption america on YouTube.
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