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Dr. Bonnie Simpson Mason has dedicated her career to advocating, educating, and empowering her fellow physicians nationwide. Empowering physicians with the requisite information, tools, and resources to become leaders who practice in safe and equitable learning environments and to build fulfilled lives for themselves, their families and their patients comprise Dr. Mason’s personal mission.
Dr. Mason joined the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in 2020. Dr. Mason is responsible for supporting efforts to address harassment, discrimination, and other forms of mistreatment in the graduate medical education (GME) learning environment. During her time there, Dr. Mason primarily lead the design, development and implementation of the ACGME’s Equity Matters, a 10-year continuous learning and process-improvement initiative in DEI and Antiracism that actively engaged over 1000 members GME community and specialty associations in education, peer-advising and solutions development with the goal definitively addressing disparities, racism and achieving health equity in their respective environments.
As of January 2022 , Dr. Mason joined the American College Surgeons as the inaugural Medical Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Dr. Mason will champion the importance and value of a diverse and inclusive environment and support the development of a vision and effective strategy to create a culture for DEI and ensure compliance with applicable laws. Her work will involve actively engaging leadership, members, volunteers, and staff to further behaviors, attitudes, and policies that support DEI. She is collaborating with ACS stakeholders to assess potential barriers, identify opportunities, and develop innovative strategies to recruit and retain a diverse workforce and membership.
As a nationally recognized speaker and champion for recruiting and retaining a diverse physician workforce as students, trainees, faculty and leaders, Dr. Mason holds adjunct faculty appointments in GME and in orthopaedic surgery. She has received several awards from her peers, specialty society and physician associations nationwide including the AAOS’ Diversity Award in 2015. For over 20 years, Dr. Mason has spent over 10,000 hours annually coaching and mentoring physicians. ians.