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During its annual spring meeting in May, the Corporation of Brown University elected Preetha Basaviah as a new trustee to its Board of Trustees. She was invited to serve on Brown’s highest governing body based on her commitment to the University and its mission of education and research. She will be formally engaged in October at the first Corporation meeting of the academic year.
Eight new trustees, including Preetha Basaviah were elected by the Corporation. Members of the Board of Trustees customarily serve six-year terms, with new alumni trustees serving for three years.
Preetha Basaviah, a 1991 Brown biology graduate who earned an M.D. from the Warren Alpert Medical School in 1995, is an advising dean and professor of clinical medicine at Stanford University. Basaviah completed her internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard, including a role as a primary care chief resident at West Roxbury Veteran’s Administration Hospital.
She completed a fellowship in medical education at the Harvard Institute for Education and Research and served as one of the first hospitalists and as an associate firm chief at Beth Israel Deaconess. Next, she served as an academic hospitalist, teaching academy member and teaching scholar at the University of California, San Francisco.
At Stanford since 2006, she is director for educators for CARE (Compassion, Advocacy, Responsibility, Empathy), a teaching academy member and an attending physician. Basaviah has earned many awards for teaching, mentoring and scholarship in medical education, including honors as Educator of the Year from the Society of General Internal Medicine.
She enjoys dancing (Indian classical, folk, ballet, and jazz), tennis, hula-hooping, traveling, and most of all, spending time with her family and friends.
