The BWH Center for Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to announce the 2022 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Minority Faculty Career Development Award (MFCDA) recipients:

Ayobami Akenroye, MBChB, MPH
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology       

Idalid Franco, MD, MPH
Department of Radiation Oncology                                                   

Luis Nicolas Gonzalez Castro, MD, PhD                                                 
Department of Neurology, Division of Neuro-oncology  

Shaina A. Lipa, MD, MPH
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery

Gezzer Ortega, MD, MPH
Department of Surgery, Center for Surgery and Public Health

Established in 1996, the MFCDA was designed to assist early-career underrepresented in medicine (UIM) faculty members in supporting their work and career progression at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at Harvard Medical School. 

In previous years, the MFCDA was granted annually to two awardees. We are pleased to announce that, in collaboration with the President’s Office, we will fund an additional three awards, for a total of five awards in 2022. We are extremely grateful to Dr. Bob Higgins for his generous support to further the careers of our UIM faculty.