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Brown University elects Preetha Basaviah as trustee
She will be formally appointed as trustee during the Corporation’s first academic-year meeting in October.
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Bhavana P - Wed, 28, May 2025
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Preetha Basaviah / Stanford
Brown University Corporation, the university’s governing body, has elected Indian-American physician and medical educator Preetha Basaviah to its board of trustees.
The appointment recognizes her contributions to medicine and education. Trustees elected for a six-year term are entrusted with key responsibilities including overseeing Brown's strategic direction, financial health, and academic integrity.
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With a distinguished career that bridges patient care and medical education, Basaviah brings a wealth of expertise and a deep connection to Brown’s values, the university said in a statement.
A 1991 graduate of Brown in biology and a 1995 alumna of the Warren Alpert Medical School, Basaviah currently serves as an advising dean and professor of clinical medicine at Stanford University.
Since joining Stanford in 2006, she has directed the CARE program (Compassion, Advocacy, Respect, and Empathy), shaping future clinicians through values-driven medical training. Her commitment to excellence has been widely recognized, including being named Educator of the Year by the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Before her tenure at Stanford, Basaviah held positions as an academic hospitalist and teaching scholar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she served as an assistant clinical professor of medicine since 2000. At UCSF, she also co-developed the Foundations of Patient Care Course.
Basaviah completed her internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she also served as a primary care chief resident at the West Roxbury Veteran's Administration Hospital. She also pursued a fellowship in medical education at the Harvard Institute for Education and Research, solidifying her path as a leader in academic medicine.
Her excellence in medical education and clinical teaching have been recognized with multiple awards such as— the 2011 SGIM National Award for Scholarship in Medical Education, 2010 California Region Clinician Educator of the Year Award, Lowell B. McGee Teaching Award, and the Katherine Swan Ginsburg Award for Humanism in Medicine.
Basaviah’s formal engagement as a trustee will take place during the first Corporation meeting of the academic year in October. She was named to the board along with seven new trustees and two fellows during the corporation’s annual spring meeting in May.
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