Celebration of Women in Medicine & Science
A Celebration of Women in Medicine and Science will be held on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at the SOM Education II Building. The event will include a keynote address from Deena McRae, associate vice president (AVP) for Academic Health Sciences (AHS) in the University of California Health division office.
We encourage any person that is directly involved in medicine and science, supports women in medicine and science, or just wants to learn more. Everyone is welcome regardless of gender and encouraged to attend!
The events are part of our celebration of the American Medical Association's Women in Medicine Month, in which we recognize and honor women's advancements in the field of medicine.
A Celebration of Women in Medicine & Science is co-hosted by the UCR School of Medicine Office of Faculty Development and the Office of Strategic Initiatives and is open to the public. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required.
Event Information
When: Events will be held on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, Time TBA
Where: SOM Education Building II
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Questions: Email FacultyDevelopment@medsch.ucr.edu
Featured Speaker · Deena S. McRae, MD
We are thrilled to welcome Deena S. McRae, MD, as our speaker. She is the associate vice president for academic health sciences at the UC Health division office.
McRae leads and provide strategic direction to advance UC’s academic health sciences mission and goals of the UC Health system and individual campuses. UC operates the largest public health sciences instruction program in the nation, with approximately 16,000 health sciences students and trainees across 20 schools on seven campuses. Schools include medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry, optometry and veterinary medicine.
At the UC Irvine School of Medicine, McRae oversaw the accreditation of the institution, as well as UC Irvine’s 72 ACGME-approved residency and fellowship programs. As an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, she provided care at UC Irvine Health in Orange and the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, where she also served as associate chief of staff for education and the designated education officer.
McRae earned a bachelors degree at the University of Pennsylvania and completed both medical school and psychiatry residency training at UC Irvine. She is a 2022 graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program.