Linda M. Boxer, MD, PhD, is the Vice Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine and the Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the School of Medicine. Dr. Boxer obtained her MD and PhD degrees at Stanford University. She was an intern and resident in internal medicine at Stanford and then did a hematology/oncology fellowship at Stanford.
She joined the faculty at Stanford in the Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, and also had a position at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Dr. Boxer’s laboratory investigated the mechanisms of deregulated expression of oncogenes by translocation into the immunoglobulin locus in B cells lymphomas. She has a clinical practice in hematology with an interest in hematologic malignancies. From 2004 to 2017 she was the Chief of the Division of Hematology.
She was the director of the Clinical Investigator Pathway (the ABIM research pathway) in the Department of Medicine and the hematology fellowship director for eight years. She has trained and mentored many physicians and physician scientists during this time and helped with their development into independent investigators.
Dr. Boxer was the Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine for two years, and she was the Senior Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine for one year. She has been the Vice Dean of the School of Medicine since September 2013.
Alternate Member
Joyce Sackey, MD, FACP
Joyce A. Sackey, M.D. FACP is the inaugural Chief Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer (CEDIO) for Stanford Medicine. Dr. Sackey is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean within the Stanford School of Medicine. As Stanford Medicine’s CEDIO, Sackey reports to Dean Lloyd Minor, and CEOs David Entwistle and Paul King, and she is responsible for designing, developing, and driving enterprise-wide strategies and efforts to advance inclusive excellence, health equity and justice. In addition, Sackey supports and unifies existing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts underway at the School of Medicine, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, and Stanford Health Care. She also provides oversight for the implementation of recommendations issued by the Commission on Justice and Equity.
Prior to joining Stanford Medicine, Dr. Sackey was Associate Provost and Chief Diversity Officer for Tufts University’s Health Sciences campuses in Boston and Grafton. She was also the Dr. Jane Murphy Gaughan Professor and Dean for Multicultural Affairs and Global Health at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM), where she oversaw the school’s key diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. She also oversaw TUSM’s global health programs, including the coordination of opportunities for students to gain exposure to global public health and health care delivery in international settings. She served as co-chair of the steering committee that oversaw the development of the medical school’s recent strategic plan (SP). Implementation of the five-year SP is currently underway.
Prior to joining TUSM, Dr. Sackey was Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Director and Advisor for William Augustus Hinton Society at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and was a staff attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where she also completed her residency in internal medicine and served as Primary Care Chief Resident. She completed advanced fellowship training in medical education and was a Senior Rabkin fellow at the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at BIDMC and HMS.
Dr. Sackey received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, and her medical degree from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is a Trustee of Dartmouth College and served on the Geisel Board of Advisors. Dr. Sackey has served on many other boards, including the Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Foundation for African Relief (FAR) and is current member of the Board of Directors for the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at BIDMC and HMS.