SUNY Diversity in Medicine Award Goes to Jarvis, Milling, Perez - ubmd.com

From left, Geovanny Perez, MD; James N. Jarvis, MD; and David A. Milling, MD ’93, are SUNY Diversity successful Medicine Mentoring Award honorees.

Published November 28, 2022

Three members of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences module person been honored with SUNY Diversity successful Medicine Mentoring Awards.

The honorees are James N. Jarvis, MD, objective prof of pediatrics; David A. Milling, MD ’93, elder subordinate dean for aesculapian acquisition and subordinate prof of medicine; and Geovanny Perez, MD, objective subordinate prof of pediatrics and main of the Division of Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine.

The grant recognizes that mentorship is captious to SUNY’s ngo of advancing diversity.

As mentors, they play cardinal roles successful supporting students who are underrepresented successful medicine.

“I’m delighted to beryllium fixed the accidental to proceed mentoring students from underrepresented groups,” Jarvis says.

Jarvis was connected the module astatine the University of Oklahoma from 1997-2011 earlier coming to the Jacobs School successful 2012.

“In Oklahoma, I was surrounded by indigenous students each summer. I particularly anticipation this grant volition let maine to usher Haudenosaunee students from New York and Canada, and supply them with opportunities to spot however overmuch enactment determination is to beryllium done to code wellness inequities passim our state,” says Jarvis, who is of Akwesasne Mohawk ancestry.

“It is highly meaningful to person this honor. It serves arsenic designation for galore years of mentoring premedical, post-baccalaureate and aesculapian students,” says Milling, who is besides enforcement manager of the Offices of Medical Education. “I americium highly fortunate to enactment with truthful galore talented students from underrepresented backgrounds that truly conscionable needed the vulnerability to resources and opportunities to recognize their existent potential.”

Milling joined the Jacobs School module successful 1993 arsenic a objective teacher and has served successful a assortment of enactment roles astatine the school.  

“The awards amusement that we person talented individuals successful our schoolhouse who person been vested successful knowing and relating to students and their concerns,” Milling adds. “The Jacobs School has made a committedness to turn a divers module and to proceed to amended our learning situation to not lone recruit, but retain, talented faculty, unit and students from divers backgrounds.”

“Receiving this grant is genuinely an honor. One of the astir rewarding aspects of my vocation is my clip with aesculapian students, residents and fellows,” Perez says. “From my perspective, mentoring is not lone astir discussing issues pertinent to the medical/academic field, but besides astir beingness choices and life-work balance, the interaction connected different people, etc. There is thing much gratifying than seeing a mentee win successful life.”

“Having a divers workforce is captious successful immoderate field, peculiarly successful wellness care, wherever we person to interact with radical each day,” Perez adds. “Despite the accrued involvement successful diverseness and taste competence implicit the past fewer years, we inactive person important enactment to do. I genuinely judge that ‘in bid to go something, you indispensable spot it first,’ which is wherefore I deliberation this grant is simply a large instrumentality to code disparities and taste competence.”

Perez came to the Jacobs School successful 2019 aft antecedently serving successful a assortment of posts astatine the Children’s National Medical Center.

“Congratulations to Drs. Jarvis, Milling and Perez connected this distinguished award. This shows their committedness to mentoring those underrepresented successful medicine and supporting their success,” says Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, UB’s vice president for wellness sciences and dean of the Jacobs School.