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Dana Levinson joined the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in April 2021 as the foundation’s first Chief Program Officer. Prior to this, she spent 25 years at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, most recently in the role as the Associate Dean for Medical School Administration at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. In that role, she provided leadership and administrative oversight for undergraduate medical education, including admissions and financial aid, medical school education and curricular innovation, diversity and inclusion, student affairs, and student programming. She held responsibility for medical school accreditation, budget management, and strategic planning. In collaboration with faculty and medical students, Dana has conducted research and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on issues related to mentoring, professional identity formation, and diversity and inclusion in medical education. Since joining the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Dana has led the implementation of new RFAs in support of the Foundation’s strategic priorities. She has also played a leadership role in the successful implementation of the Macy Foundation’s signature consensus conferences and convenings on key issues affecting health professions education, including guest editing the resulting Academic Medicine special supplements.