We are pleased to announce that UCSF Vice Chancellor of Diversity and Outreach and Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, J. Renee Navarro, PharmD, MD, will be honored at the National Medical Fellowships (NMF) Bay Area Champions of Health Awards Luncheon on March 2, 2019, with the NMF Diversity Award. Founded in Chicago in 1946, the NMF’s mission is “to provide scholarships and support for underrepresented minority students in medicine and the health professions.”
Vice Chancellor Navarro has worked tirelessly throughout her remarkable career to create support networks and structures that allow all students to reach their fullest potential and excel. She is also a steering committee member of the African American Health Initiative for San Francisco County, a member of the UC President’s Task Force on Faculty Diversity and the current representative to the diversity accountability committee. Navarro's service to the University and the community has previously been honored by receipt of the Chancellor’s Celebration of Women Faculty Award, Chancellor’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, Assemblyman Leno Mentor Award and Mayor Willie Brown’s Proclamation of Dr. J. Renee Navarro Day in San Francisco.