Shelli F. Farhadian, Graduating MD-PhD student, Wins 2012 Pioneers in Diversity Award

The Ida Sophia Scudder, M.D. Award for Excellence in Public Service:

Shelli F. Farhadian, PhD,
Graduating MD-PhD student

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The Office of Faculty Diversity in Science and Medicine invites you to join us to celebrate on
Thursday June 14th, 2012
1:30 to 2:30pm
Room A-126
Weill Cornell Medical College – 1300 York Avenue

All are invited to attend!

The Keynote Address will be given by
Anne C. Beal, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Anne Beal is the first Chief Operating Officer of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an organization dedicated to improving health care delivery and outcomes by producing and promoting high integrity, evidence-based information that comes from research guided by patients, caregivers and the broader health care community. A pediatrician and public health specialist, Dr. Beal has devoted her career to providing access to high-quality health care through the delivery of health care services, teaching, research, public health, and philanthropy. Dr. Beal was previously President of the Aetna Foundation, the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Aetna Inc., as well as Assistant Vice President for the Program on Health Care Disparities at the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that aims to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.