Vineet Arora

Dr. Vineet Arora is a Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago Medicine, Pritzker School of Medicine. As Dean, she oversees undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, continuing medical education and provides key leadership for the simulation-based training programs at University of Chicago. Dr. Arora is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine whose work improving care and learning in teaching hospitals has been funded by NIH, AHRQ and the Macy Foundation, has been cited roughly 10,000 times. Her work on improving sleep, fatigue and handoffs was influential in improving working conditions for residents. As an advocate for improving equity and opportunity in academic medicine, she has been an influential voice for women in medicine and has led NIH-funded grants to improve mentoring for diverse future physician scientists. She is a former member of the Board of Directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine and a current member of the Board of the Joint Commission. Dr. Arora is a thought leader on the topics of the healthcare workforce, medical education, patient safety, gender equity, and hospital medicine.