Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Dana A. Telem, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Surgery, is the Chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, the Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety, and Director of the Michigan Women's Surgical Collaborative at the University of Michigan. Dr. Telem completed her surgical training at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and her fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Telem also completed a Masters in Public Health in the Executive Masters of Healthcare Management program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her clinical practice is devoted to minimally invasive therapies focused on hernia, benign diseases of the esophagus and morbid obesity. Dr. Telem's academic interests lie in health services research with a focus in implementation science. Specifically, the effective and sustainable adoption of evidence-based recommendations into actual practice. Dr. Telem receives research funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National Institute of Health and the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). She serves on the editorial boards of Annals of Surgery and Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, is an Associate Editor for Surgical Endoscopy, The American Journal of Surgery and Hernia. Her research and commentaries have been published in several prominent journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), JAMA surgery and Annals of Surgery. She serves on the SAGES and Foundation for Surgical Fellowships Board of Governors, and holds key leadership positions across several organizations and societies including American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, Americas Hernia Society (AHS), and Leapfrog, focused on quality and patient safety, as well as diversity and inclusion.

Colin A. Martin, MD isan Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Diversity Equity and Inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed his general surgery training at the University of Cincinnati and Pediatric surgery training at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Martin has a traditional clinical pediatric surgical practice with a specific interest in patients with intestinal failure and serves as the surgical Director of the Children's of Alabama/UAB Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation. He also has developed a basic science and translational research program that focuses on understanding the effects of environmental influences on neonatal immunity which has been funded by the NIH, American Surgical Association, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Surgical Research and the American Journal of Surgery. He also holds numerous national surgical societal leadership positions including serving as an executive committee member for the Society for Black Academic Surgeons and the AAS.