Linda Pololi

Areas of Expertise

Medical Education; Faculty Development; Mentoring

Email: lpololi@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Dr. Pololi serves as principal investigator for the National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine: C-Change, a partnership of 5 medical schools, primarily funded by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. The goal of the Initiative is to foster change in the culture of academic medicine to support realizing the full potential of women and underrepresented minority faculty.

Biography

Linda Pololi, Senior Scientist, has held medical school faculty positions at Brown University, East Carolina University and the Universities of Illinois and Massachusetts. As professor of medicine she designed and established innovative major courses for medical students and a series of highly successful interdisciplinary faculty development programs. As principal investigator and founding director for a U.S. Public Health Service funded National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine, she developed and implemented effective model mentoring programs for faculty to promote their advancement into leadership positions and to enhance gender equity in academic medicine. Dr. Pololi’s research and efforts to improve education for students and faculty have emphasized humanizing the learning environment, learner-centered and relationship-based methods to facilitate learning, physician-patient communication, mentoring and multiculturalism.

Dr. Pololi is the recipient of numerous grants and contracts. She has served as consultant to medical schools and the U.S. Surgeon General’s Physician Professional Advisory Committee on developing mentoring programs.  She is a facilitator with the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare and the Center for Courage and Renewal. Prior to joining the WSRC, she was Vice Chancellor for Education at the University of Mass. Medical School.

Education

MB.BS. (Doctor of Medicine), University of London

Representative Publications

Pololi, L., and R. Frankel.  “Humanizing Medical Education Through Faculty Development: Linking Self Awareness with Teaching Skills.”  Medical Education 39 (2005): 154-62.

Pololi, L., and Knight, S.  “Mentoring of Faculty in Academic Medicine: A New Paradigm?” Journal of General Internal Medicine 20 (2005); 866-870.

Links

National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine: C-Change