Mark Schuster

Mark Schuster es el decano fundador y director ejecutivo de la Facultad de Medicina Bernard J. Tyson de Kaiser Permanente, ubicada en Pasadena, California . Schuster asumió su cargo en 2017 y la facultad abrió sus puertas en julio de 2020. ^{[ 1 ]} Schuster es un médico-científico conocido por su trabajo en salud infantil, adolescente y familiar.

Schuster nació en Baltimore, Maryland, y asistió a la Gilman School . Estudió historia en la Universidad de Yale, donde se licenció con honores (summa cum laude) en 1981. En 1988, obtuvo sus títulos de Doctor en Medicina (MD) y Máster en Políticas Públicas (MPP) en la Facultad de Medicina de Harvard y la Escuela de Gobierno John F. Kennedy de Harvard . Su tesis de maestría versó sobre el VIH entre usuarios de drogas inyectables en Boston. Sus directores de tesis fueron Thomas Schelling y Mark Schlesinger. Schuster completó su residencia en pediatría en el Boston Children's Hospital antes de comenzar su doctorado en la Pardee RAND Graduate School, mientras era becario clínico Robert Wood Johnson en la UCLA. Su tesis doctoral, que versó sobre la sexualidad adolescente y la prevención de riesgos, fue presentada en 1994. Su comité de tesis incluyó a Robert Bell, Robert Brook, Phyllis Ellickson y David Kanouse (presidente). ^{[ 2 ]}

Schuster ha sido coautor de más de 250 artículos en revistas especializadas y dos libros: Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (but Were Afraid They'd Ask): The Secrets to Surviving Your Child's Sexual Development from Birth to the Teens y Child Rearing in America: Challenges Facing Parents of Young Children . Con financiación de los NIH, la AHRQ y los CDC, ha llevado a cabo investigaciones sobre temas como la calidad de la atención médica, las disparidades en salud , la licencia familiar remunerada, la salud sexual adolescente, la prevención de la obesidad, la prevención del VIH y el acoso escolar. ^{[ 3 ]}

From 1995 – 2007, Schuster was a faculty member at UCLA and reached the level of professor of pediatrics and of health services at the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health. While there, he was also a Senior Natural Scientist at RAND, where he founded and led the UCLA/RAND Health Promotion and Disease Prevention research center and held the RAND Distinguished Chair in Health Promotion.^[4] From 2007 - 2017, Schuster served as the William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and as the Chief of General Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Health Policy in the Department of Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. Schuster was the founding director of the Center of Excellence for Pediatric Quality Measurement at Boston Children's Hospital, funded by AHRQ and CMS.^[5] Schuster joined Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in 2017 and is overseeing the development of a new school that will use many of the most innovative and effective educational practices available today to provide future physicians with the knowledge and skills needed to help transform healthcare and help people from all backgrounds and settings thrive.^[6]

Schuster is an active voice in research and advocacy on LGBTQ+ health and LGBTQ+ representation in medicine.^[7] His published speech, On Being Gay in Medicine, has been widely circulated and used as a teaching tool.^[8][9][10] In 2020, a 10-year retrospective on the piece was published in WBUR's CommonHealth Blog.^[11]

• Elected member of the National Academy of Medicine
• Recipient of the Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations
• Former President of the Academic Pediatric Association
• Recipient of the Richardson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for Pediatric Research
• Recipient of the Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School
• Named among Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2018 and 2019
• Named among Modern Healthcare's 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives in 2019^[12][13]