According to AAMC, women across the country account for 16 percent of medical school deans and 18 percent of department chairs—each figure rising just 4 percent and 6 percent, respectively, over the past 10 years. The number of female full professors in academic medicine has increased only from 19 to 25 percent in the last decade.

“I am very happy to welcome Adrienne to the Office of Equity and Inclusion. Having worked with her extensively already in my time here, I know...

We are more likely to be frontline workers; we are more likely to take mass transportation; we are less likely to be able to stay home and work (or stay home and be sick!),” Dr. Clark said in an email.