Program Directors

Vivian Reznik, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Reznik is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Pediatrics and Family and Preventive Medicine. She has a longstanding interest in faculty development and mentoring in academic medicine. In 1995, she began the Pediatric Faculty Mentor program which was designed to help faculty with the planning of their academic careers, obtaining required training in scholarly activities and administration, and facilitating the contacts necessary to establish prominence in an area of study. She was an active participant of the 1997 School of Medicine Strategic Planning Process that helped focus the need at UCSD for faculty mentoring. She is the Academic Coordinator of the Hispanic Center of Excellence which facilitates minority faculty recruitment and retention at UCSD. Locally, she has been on the Board of Leadership Education Awareness Development (LEAD), an educational organization designed to provide an issue-oriented and personal skill development community leadership program to the adults of the San Diego region. She received their Graduate of the Year 2000 Award. In 2002 she received the Chancellor's Associates UCSD Award for Outstanding Community Service. She is the Past President of the Society for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (SELAM), which supports the advancement and promotion of women to executive positions in academic health professions through programs that enhance professional development.

Deborah Wingard, Ph.D.
Dr. Wingard is Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Vice Chief of the Division of Epidemiology. She is currently a member of the Health Care Sciences Faculty Equity Committee, and past-Chair of UCSD's Diversity Council, the Committee on the Status of Women, and the School of Medicine Gender Equity Task Force, and past member of the campus Gender Equity Task Force. Dr. Wingard was the first recipient of the American Medical Women's Association Mentor Award in 1994 for promoting a gender-fair environment for the education and training of physicians, the YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award in 1999, and the San Diego Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business Award in 2004. She is also recognized for her mentorship of doctoral students in her role as the UCSD Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health-Epidemiology. Dr. Wingard's research focuses on the field of women's health.