Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Dean Gentilesco grew up in New York, and received her undergraduate degree from Amherst College. She attended Cornell Medical School, and went west to complete residency at Stanford University. She has worked as an academic hospitalist since 2004, and has been on the faculty at Brown since 2007. For more than 15 years, she has served on the leadership team for the Internal Medicine residency as an Associate Program Director. From 2020, she chaired the Department of Medicine’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. In addition to her new role as Senior Associate Dean of Inclusive Community she serves as Associate Director of Graduate Medical Education for Brown University Health. She has ongoing scholarly projects concerning the teaching of race and racism in medical training. She is passionate about bringing justice to patients and the medical community.  She enjoys caring for patients on the inpatient wards, where she teaches residents and students. She embraces the Brown ethos of open-minded and open-hearted thinking and care. She is an avid reader of fiction, loves crossword puzzles, is learning how to speak French.