Hannah Valantine, M.D., received her M.B.B.S. degree from London University, completed her cardiology fellowship at Stanford University, and got her doctorate of medicine from London University. She was appointed assistant professor of medicine at Stanford, rising to full professor of medicine in 2000 and becoming the inaugural senior associate dean for diversity and leadership in 2004. She pursued a data-driven transformative approach to this work, receiving the NIH Director’s Pathfinder Award. NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., recruited Dr. Valantine in 2014 as the inaugural NIH chief officer for scientific workforce diversity and as a tenured investigator in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s intramural research program, where she established the Laboratory of Transplantation Genomics.
Dr. Valantine is a nationally recognized pioneer in her field, with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, multiple patents, and sustained NIH funding. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020 for her pioneering research in organ transplantation and workforce diversity.
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