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Opening Doors Series Highlights Important HMS Faculty
In 2025, the HMS Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) established Opening Doors – a series of conversations with HMS faculty who have made significant contributions to Harvard Medical School. By conversing with a former mentee or colleague...
Headshots and photos from various Opening Doors speakers and events.

Community Spotlight: Genesis Perez-Melara
Genesis, you have a unique experience - you first came to HMS as a 14-year-old to participate in the student-run HPREP program and then subsequently participated in OCCE’s Hinton AP Biology program and the Project Success high school program, and later...
Genesis Perez-Melara is wearing a black blouse and white coat. She is standing outside in front of a tree.

Honoring 2026 Recipients of the Excellence in Mentoring Awards
There wasn’t an empty seat in the room. Nearly 100 members of the HMS community joined the Excellence in Mentoring Awards recipients and their mentees for the 2026 awards ceremony on June 11. The Office for Culture and Community Engagement hosted the...
2026 Excellence in Mentoring Awards recipients line up for a photo in the Waterhouse Room. They are all holding their angular glass awards.

Honoring 2026 Recipients of the Dean’s Community Service Award
The Dean’s Community Service Award recognizes the entire Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine community – recognizing faculty, trainees, staff and students whose dedication and commitment to community service have made a positive...
Recipients of the 2026 Dean's Community Service Award sit in a classroom in Countway Library. There is a projector screen behind them showing additional recipients.

Giving back in our Mission Hill Neighborhood
On May 20th, OCCE’s Michelle Keenan joined six other Harvard Longwood Community members to pick up litter in the Mission Hill neighborhood (some volunteers pictured) .These ‘waste warriors’ battled the heat and the wind-strewn food packaging, paper, cans...
Michelle Keenan stands alongside four other volunteers outside the Kresge building. They are all holding clear trash bags filled with trash and four of the volunteers also have trash pickers.

2026 LFDP Conference - Day 3 (May 8)
The 2026 Leadership and Faculty Development Conference (LFDP) concluded with a career development training on “ How to Disagree Better .” Attended by HMS faculty, trainees and staff as well as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Policy and...
Julia Minson (left) has short brown hair is sitting behind a desk. Heather Sulejman (right) has long brown hair is wearing a maroon blouse.

2026 LFDP Conference - Day 2 (May 7)
The 2026 Leadership and Faculty Development Conference opened up day two of the program with the Health Policy Annual Meeting, where the 2025-2026 cohort of Commonwealth Fund Fellows presented their year’s work. The Health Policy Annual Meeting is...
Monica Bharel is wearing a green blazer and necklace made of kukui nuts. She is standing in front of a projector screen in the Waterhouse Room and speaking.

2026 LFDP Conference - Day 1 (May 6)
Following an introductory evening of alumni fellows celebrating 30 years of the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, the first day of the 2026 Leadership and Faculty Development Program (LFDP) Conference opened with presentations from the most recent cohort of...
Kiran Agarwal-Harding stands behind a lectern as he gestures towards a projecter screen in the Waterhouse Room of Gordon Hall.

Harvard Longwood Community Walks for Peace on Mother’s Day
On Sunday, May 10, 2026, members of the Harvard Longwood community joined thousands of others at the 30th annual Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Mother’s Day Walk for Peace at Town Field Park in Dorchester. Representing Harvard Medical School, the Harvard...
Two members of the OCCE staff stand outside during the Mother's Day Walk. One of them is holding up a red Team Harvard Medical School sign.