Program Directors

Vivian Reznik, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Reznik, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Pediatrics and Family and Preventive Medicine 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 as well as the 2005 UC San Diego HS Climate Survey that highlighted the importance of faculty development. 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 and received their Graduate of the Year Award in 2000. She received the Chancellor’s Associates UCSD Award for Outstanding Community Service, the Yale Tercentennial Award, and the UCSD Healthcare Diversity Award. 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 and currently, is on the Board of the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs.

Deborah Wingard, Ph.D.
Dr. Wingard is Professor Epidemiology in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. She is currently a member of the Health 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 gender and racial health disparities.