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Keynote
Speaker:
Marc Nivet, Ed.D.
Chief Diversity Officer, Association of American Medical
Colleges
Marc
A. Nivet, Ed.D., is the Chief Diversity Officer for
the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Nivet
is known for seeking out and connecting people and ideas,
creating innovative collaborations that have been recognized
nationally as models of success. Through his writing
and lectures, he has worked to reframe the conversation
around diversity, elevating diversity out of its silo
and into the company of talent management and strategic
planning as drivers of organizational transformation
and performance improvement. In the context of academic
medicine, this means linking diversity to the overall
mission of better health outcomes for all.
He most recently served as Treasurer and COO for the
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, which strives to foster
innovation in health professional education and to align
the education of health professionals with contemporary
health needs and a changing health care system. Prior
to the Macy Foundation, Dr. Nivet held a directorship
at the Sallie Mae Fund, the philanthropic arm of the
SLM Corporation. Before that, he worked for seven years
as the Associate Executive Director of the Associated
Medical Schools of New York, where he oversaw several
programs designed to increase enrollment and retention
of minority students in the health professions. He gathered
valuable on the ground experience as director of the
Office of Minority Affairs at the New York College of
Osteopathic Medicine from 1995 to 1998.
Dr. Nivet earned his Doctorate in Education from the
University Of Pennsylvania. A fellow of the New York
Academy of Medicine, Dr. Nivet is a past president of
the National Association of Medical Minority Educators,
which presented him with its Outstanding Service Award
in 2006. He received the Riland Medal for Community
Advocacy from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
in 2009. He currently serves in an advisory capacity
for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Careers
in Nursing Scholarship Program and the American Dental
Education Association’s Commission on Change and
Innovation in Dental Education.
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