Please join us in congratulating Dr. Felipe Teran on being named a recipient of the Faculty Diversity Incentive Program of the Mastercard Diversity-Mentorship Collaborative at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Established through the support of a $5 million grant from The Mastercard Impact Fund, The Mastercard Diversity-Mentorship Collaborative aims to build upon Weill Cornell Medicine’s foundational mission of enhancing diversity and inclusion in medicine and establish an infrastructure of mentorship that supports all research faculty at WCM. The grant supports a range of diversity and inclusion programs including the development of a mentoring curriculum, the establishment of a salary support program for new faculty, competitive career development awards for junior faculty from underrepresented minority in medicine (URiM) populations, and research assistance for those with childcare commitments.
The Faculty Diversity Incentive Program was established to award salary support for up to two new URiM faculty per year. Faculty who are supported through this mechanism receive $50,000-$100,000 of funding for their first two years at WCM and participate in the mentoring program established as part of the Mastercard Diversity-Mentorship Collaborative.
Dr. Teran joined the Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine as a faculty member of the Research Division in July 2021. A leading expert in the emerging use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) across emergency and critical care environments, Dr. Teran has given over 80 presentations nationally and internationally and has directed training workshops for EMRA, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, and the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical UltraSound. He is a founding faculty member of the Resuscitative TEE Project, co-chair of the Resuscitative TEE Collaborative Registry, and course director of the Resuscitative TEE Workshop.
Dr. Teran trained in Emergency Medicine and completed a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasonography at Mount Sinai Hospital. Following his training, Dr. Teran joined the University of Pennsylvania. During his time there, Dr. Teran completed the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) program; served as the associate director at the Center for Resuscitation Science; and became a testamur of the National Board of Echocardiography Critical Care Echocardiography Examination.
