Diversity & Inclusion
Contact
1025 Walnut Street
College Building, Room 119
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Thomas Jefferson University is committed to building and expanding a diverse educational community founded on mutual respect and appreciation for each other.
Bernard L. Lopez, MD, MS, CPE Associate Provost, Diversity & Inclusion; Associate Dean, Diversity & Community Engagement; and Professor, Emergency Medicine
We aspire to create a diverse and inclusive environment, knowing that the creative energy and innovative insights that result from diversity are vital for our intellectual rigor and social fabric. As a scholarly community, we are people of all racial, ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, national and international backgrounds. We welcome diversity of thought, pedagogy, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability. Our shared responsibility is to enhance the quality of life for all members of the Jefferson community, providing a safe, welcoming, and supportive environment in which to learn, work and grow.
Diversity is the richness in human differences. Inclusion is the valuation of diversity. At Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC), we promote and cultivate an inclusive environment that values and cherishes the diversity of our people. SKMC believes that a diverse and inclusive environment is key to achieving excellence in our missions of patient care, education and research. We believe that our mission and values create and nurture the physicians who provide compassionate and culturally-sensitive care to the patients that they serve.
SKMC Council on Diversity & Inclusion
The SKMC Council on Diversity & Inclusion is the main organization within the medical college that drives diversity and inclusion. It is chaired by the Dean of SKMC and is composed of representatives from senior leadership, department chairs, faculty, residents, students and staff. The Council is charged with creating and updating the vision for diversity and inclusion, performing an ongoing assessment progress and makes recommendations on initiatives, curriculum, policies and resources needed to achieve desired outcomes. It has the authority to enact action items to assure that we achieve our missions in patient care, education and research to ensure that we best serve the health and health care needs of the public
Counsel Members
| Mark Tykocinski, MD | President, Thomas Jefferson University Anthony F. and Gertrude M. DePalma Dean, Sidney Kimmel Medical College |
| Robert Taylor | Vice President, Human Resources |
| Karen Novielli, MD | Vice Dean, Faculty Affairs |
| Steve Herrine, MD | Vice Dean, Education |
| David Whellan, MD | Associate Dean for Clinical Research |
| Walter Kraft, MD | Medical Director, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics |
| Kathryn Trayes, MD | Associate Dean, Student Affairs and Career Counseling |
| Charlie Pohl, MD | Senior Associate Dean, Student Affairs and Career Counseling |
| Bill Keane, MD | Physician Director, Jefferson University Physicians |
| Gretchen Diemer, MD | Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education |
| Bernie Lopez, MD | Associate Dean, Diversity and Community Engagement |
| Ted Christopher, MD | Chair, Emergency Medicine |
| Stephen Peiper, MD | Chair, Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Charles Yeo, MD | Chair, Surgery |
| Steve Williams, MD | Chair, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Medicine |
| Adam Dicker, MD | Chair, Radiation Oncology |
| Bill McNett, MD | Faculty, Pediatrics |
| Annina Wilkes, MD | Faculty, Radiology |
| Ed Pribitkin, MD | Faculty, Otolaryngology |
| Steve Weinstein, PhD | Faculty, Psychiatry |
| Jerry McCauley, MD | Faculty, Nephrology |
| Shruti Chandra, MD | Faculty, Emergency Medicine |
| Tara Uhler, MD | Faculty, Ophthalmology |
| Edward Winter, PhD | Faculty, Biochemistry |
| Andres Fernadez, MD | Faculty, Neurology |
| Christine Jerpbak, MD | Faculty, Family and Community Medicine |
| Emily Stewart, MD | Faculty, Internal Medicine |
| Fatima Syed, MD | Fellow, Hematology and Oncology |
| Krys Foster, MD | Faculty, Family and Community Medicine |
| Kenechi Obede, MD | Faculty, Anesthesiology |
| Kevin Kwak, MD | Resident, Internal Medicine |
| Sunny Lai, MD | Resident, Family and Community Medicine |