HICCC Welcomes New DEI Assistant Directors

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center shared on X:

“Get to know HICCC’s new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion assistant directors Emily Mace and Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir who are challenging conformity to increase representation from medical classroom to clinic.”

Source: Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center/X

Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, M.D is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental Health Sciences and the Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Division at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Her research is focused on understanding how environmental factors impact children with asthma, particularly in urban and minority communities. She is an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research and in 2019 was recognized by the journal Pediatric Research for the Early Career Investigator Spotlight.

Emily M. Mace is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Immunology at Columbia University. She completed her undergraduate degree in microbiology and immunology from the University of Saskatchewan in 2003 and then moved to the University of British Columbia to pursue her PhD in genetics.

She worked in Fumio Takei’s lab in the Terry Fox Laboratory – BC Cancer Research Centre. Previously, she was an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine from 2016 to 2018.