Mr. Davis has more than 20 years of experience leading operations and strategy and building a culture of belonging. He leads CHOP’s enterprise diversity strategy and brings a patient- and family-centric approach to DEI, leveraging relationships, expertise and partnerships across the CHOP enterprise and within the community. During his tenure as chief diversity officer, he has spearheaded a comprehensive DEI integrated strategy, a key part of which focuses on increasing education and awareness for CHOP’s workforce of more than 28,000, and revamped all DEI education and trainings. Under his leadership, CHOP launched the partnering for cultural growth initiative, which provides patient-facing clinical staff with tactics, tools and resources to better engage with one another while providing care with cultural competency in mind. Mr. Davis is spearheading efforts to increase the diversity of CHOP’s workforce, which led to 22.96% diverse representation in roles at the director level and above in fiscal year 2023. Within the same fiscal year, CHOP added over 200 new diverse vendors and achieved a 12% increase in diverse spend.
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Becker's Recognition
Gilbert Davishas been named a Becker's honoree on the lists below.
2024 Winner

Executives
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