Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School, USA.

Joan Reede iMD, MS, MPH, MBA is the Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership responsible for the development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention and advancement of under-represented minority faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Reede spoke at the Gender Summit 3 North America 2013 (GS3NA) on how the Program for Faculty Development and Diversity supports the recruitment and retention of a diverse Clinical Translational workforce. She asked questions such as: Why diversity? What can diversity add to drug development? How can we realize the value of diversity? What value does diversity add to addressing complex problems?