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This week’s episode of the Faculty Factory podcast is a chat with Nutan Vaidya, MD, about her role as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Equity with the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Ill.
Dr. Vaidya also serves as Professor and Discipline Chair of Psychiatry with the Chicago Medical School. Prior to her current role, Dr. Vaidya served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Learning Environment (before it was known as Faculty Development).
Dr. Vaidya discusses the unique challenges facing her community medical school and the solution-oriented approach her team enacted to better serve faculty. Make sure to listen to today’s episode in its entirety to learn about the key programs and initiatives that were built to deal with these challenges.
There are plenty of amazing, innovative programs taking place at her institution and we are honored to have her visit us this week to spread these ideas.
Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD, is the current Dean and Vice President for Medical Affairs at the Chicago Medical School as mentioned on today’s episode.
“It’s wonderful to have a champion of faculty in the dean’s office,” Dr. Vaidya told us.
Dr. Chatterjee joined us for Faculty Factory Episode No. 39 back in 2019. At the time, Dr. Chatterjee was the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. If you would like to listen to that episode you can check it out here.
If you would like to reach out to Dr. Vaidya for more information, you can email her at nutan.vaidya@rosalindfranklin.edu.