Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City named Said Ibrahim, MD, its inaugural senior associate dean for diversity and inclusion, effective Jan. 2.
Here are five points:
1. Dr. Ibrahim is Weill Cornell's inaugural chief of the division of healthcare delivery science and innovation in the department of healthcare policy and research. He assumed this role in 2017
2. Previously, he was a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, both based in Philadelphia.
3. He was also co-director of the Department of Veteran Affairs' National Center of Innovation for Health Equity Research and Promotion and director of the CHERP Center in Philadelphia.
4. In his new role, Dr. Ibrahim will lead the Office of Diversity and Inclusion's efforts to enhance diversity initiatives.
5. Dr. Ibrahim emigrated from Somalia in the 1980s and completed internal medicine residency training at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School.