Vineet Arora MD, MAPP

Dr. Vineet Arora is a Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Vice Dean of Education for the Biological Sciences Division at The University of Chicago. She oversees undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, masters education, continuing medical education and provides key leadership for the simulation-based training programs at University of Chicago.  Dr. Arora is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine whose work improving care and learning in teaching hospitals, often in the area of improving quality, safety, and value, has been funded by NIH, AHRQ, FDA, and the Macy Foundation, has cited roughly 10,000 times. Her work on improving sleep, fatigue, and handoffs was influential in improving working conditions for residents.  As an advocate for improving equity and opportunity in academic medicine, she has been an influential voice for women in medicine and leads NIH-funded programs to improve mentoring for diverse physician scientists. She completed a term as Board member for the American Board of Internal Medicine and currently serves as a Board member of the Joint Commission.