Diversity Initiatives

Our Mission

  1. To foster and celebrate a community of inclusion and create awareness of the unconscious biases and treatment of groups of diverse / inter-sectional identities.
  2. To structure a pipeline pathway for underrepresented minority communities to study, teach, and work in the medical field and specifically in the department of Neurosurgery at UCSF.
  3. To partner with internal and external departments and organizations to further expand and implement our initiatives.

How to Help

NOTE: Due to COVID, any in-person internship or shadowing experience, even Summer 2021, may not be likely. Research opportunities may be possible to create, while clinical observations currently are not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact

ENVISION Internship Program Career Exploration

Yesenia Velasquez
Community Internship Specialist
[email protected]

Neurosurgery Initiatives Program

Sasha Mortezaei
Chief Administrative Officer, Neurological Surgery
[email protected]

Neurosurgery Diversity Committee

Christina Weyer-Jamora PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
[email protected]

Women in Neurosurgery Group

Christina Weyer-Jamora PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
[email protected]