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• Darin A. Latimore

Darin A. Latimore

Darin A. Latimore, MD, has been Deputy Dean for Diversity and Inclusion since January 2017, and is the School of Medicine’s inaugural Chief Diversity Officer.

Alongside YSM senior leadership, Dr. Latimore is responsible for developing a comprehensive plan for furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion at the school, including a robust recruitment and retention program for faculty, and students from historically underrepresented in medical communities. He coordinates with such groups as the Inclusion, Community, Engagement & Equity (DICE), the Minority Organization for Retention and Expansion (MORE), the Committee on the Status of Women in Medicine (SWIM), the Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice, and the Dean’s Advisory Council on LGBTQ Affairs.

Dr. Latimore’s passion for promoting diversity and inclusion stems from his own background. As an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, he felt isolated on a campus where there were few African-Americans and even fewer students from his socioeconomic background. After obtaining his medical degree at University of California, Davis School of Medicine and completing his residency in internal medicine at University of California, Davis Medical Center, he worked as a physician specializing in HIV care with The Permanente Medical Group in South Sacramento, CA where he also trained medical students and residents.

His transition to academic medicine began with his appointment as Associate Program Director for the UC Davis internal medicine residency program. Many of the students and residents with whom he worked shared his experiences of isolation and discrimination, prompting him to write a job description that led to his inaugural position as Director of Medical Student Diversity at UC Davis in 2008, a position he held until joining Yale in 2017. Since August, as a part of his current strategy to improve the cultural climate for all of YSM, Dr. Latimore has given over 26 focused talks on the topic of unconscious bias.