Vineet Arora, MD, MACP, the Keynote Speaker for Internal Medicine Meeting 2023, will give a talk titled "Lead from Where You Stand: How to Advocate for Your Patients, Your Profession, and Yourself," at Thursday's Opening Ceremony at 9:15 in Hall D. (Livestream is available for registered meeting attendees.)
Dr. Arora is the Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and dean for medical education at the University of Chicago Medicine Pritzker School of Medicine. As dean, she oversees undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education, and provides key leadership for the simulation-based training programs at University of Chicago.
Dr. Arora is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine whose work on improving care and learning in teaching hospitals has been funded by NIH, AHRQ and the Macy Foundation and has been cited over 10,000 times. Her work on improving sleep, fatigue, and handoffs was influential in improving working conditions for residents.
As an advocate for improving equity and opportunity in academic medicine, Dr. Arora has been an influential voice for women in medicine and leads NIH-funded programs to improve mentoring for women and minority future physician scientists. She is a member of the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Joint Commission. She has earned Mastership in the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American College of Physicians, where she also served as Chair of the Council of Resident and Fellow Members, and in that role testified to Congress about the primary care crisis 20 years ago. ■