AAMC GFA Webinar: Ensuring the Vitality of Senior and Emeriti Faculty - May 8

Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Operations, Department of Radiology Director, Center for Faculty Development

Dr. Bredella is professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, vice chair for faculty affairs and clinical operations in the Department of Radiology and a musculoskeletal radiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She holds an MBA from MIT/Sloan School of Management.

Dr. Bredella established a department-wide faculty mentoring program which was awarded the Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School. She directs the MGH Center for Faculty Development, where she oversees the offices for women’s careers, clinical and research careers, the office for well-being and office for senior faculty affairs. She was awarded the Innovative Initiatives Award from the Boston Women’s Workforce Council and the Shirley Driscoll Dean's Leadership Award for the Enhancement of Women's Careers from Harvard Medical School for her efforts improving the well-being of faculty and trainees across the career span. Dr. Bredella is an active member of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Forces at MGH and Harvard Medical School where she designed successful initiatives for increasing diversity in research operations.

Dr. Bredella is an NIH-funded physician scientist focusing on novel functional imaging techniques to determine the effects of different fat depots on bone and metabolic risk across the weight spectrum. Since joining the faculty at MGH, she has been continuously grant-funded as PI by the NIH. Dr. Bredella co-directs the Harvard KL2/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training Program where she mentors clinical translational researchers across all Harvard hospitals and specialties. She has been elected to be a member of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program Steering Committee and chairs several national CTSA working groups on workforce development. She is the author of over 270 peer-reviewed manuscripts and multiple textbooks.

Dr. Bredella is a fellow of the American College of Radiology and a Scholar of Diagnostic Excellence from the National Academy of Medicine.

DCI Research Director and Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor in Pediatrics, Emerita, Stanford University

Dr. Iris Litt went from traditional pediatric training at Cornell (New York Hospital) in the late ’60s to designing and running a health care program at New York City’s Juvenile Detention Center while on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. After five years, she recreated this model program at the Adolescent Remand Center at Rikers Island Prison, establishing national standards for prison health care.

Dr. Litt joined the faculty at Stanford University (1976) hoping that behavioral scientists would help her to understand and improve health behavior. Here she developed one of the first academic programs in the new field of adolescent medicine and became a Charter Member of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. She subsequently served as its President and Editor-in-Chief of its Journal of Adolescent Health.

As the director of Stanford’s Clayman Institute from 1990-199, Litt, became concerned about the absence of information about women’s health. She addressed questions about gender and adolescent health, highlighting the value of interdisciplinary research. This commitment led to two terms as Director of Stanford’s Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Litt’s own research on the impact of eating disorders on pubertal development, sleep disorders, pregnancy prevention resulted in more than 150 scholarly publications and her election to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She was selected as one of 100 woman who are “Changing the Face of Medicine” by the National Library of Medicine.

Her belief that many health problems of the elderly originate in childhood led to her appointment to the Advisory Council of Stanford’s Center for Longevity. Now as Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor of Pediatrics (Emerita) and consultant to Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, her 50- year self-descriptor as “Geriatric Pediatrician” has new meaning.

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a Johns Hopkins University Provost’s Fellow, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Rand is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a Johns Hopkins University Provost’s Fellow. She is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, with joint appointments in Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Public Health. Dr. Rand is a licensed psychologist in the State of Maryland and a nationally board-certified executive coach.

Dr. Rand received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her Master's and Doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University. After receiving her doctorate, Dr. Rand completed postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins in both pediatrics and psychiatry. She is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of adherence with chronic therapies and respiratory health disparities, with over 200 publications in these areas. She has served as a national leader in the area of pediatric and adult behavioral research for over 30 years and is the past chair of the Behavioral Sciences Assembly of the American Thoracic Society. She has served on multiple national advisory boards for the NIH.

Dr. Rand is widely recognized for her expertise in mentoring, faculty development and leadership coaching. She is particularly known for her leadership related to faculty development programs for senior faculty. Dr. Rand led a School of Medicine Task Force on Senior Faculty Transitions which resulted in the creation of several innovative programs to support senior faculty, including retirement incentive programs for University faculty, a University-wide workshop for planning faculty career transitions, and the creation of the Academy at Johns Hopkins, a University-wide Emeriti college for retired faculty that supports the continued engaged of retired faculty in scholarship, mentoring and community service.

Dr. Rand is the 2002 recipient of the Department of Medicine David L. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Award, the 2003 recipient of the Women’s Leadership Award from the Johns Hopkins Women’s Leadership Network, the 2007 Hopkins Bayview Scholar Award, the 2008 American Thoracic Society Behavioral Sciences Assembly Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2011 JHSM Vice Dean’s Award for the Advancement of Women, the 2012 JHSM Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Education, the 2015 American Thoracic Society Elizabeth A. Rich Award, the 2017 Johns Hopkins University Provost’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring. and the 2021 Miller Coulson Academy’s Award for the Support of Clinical Excellence.