#  Valerie E Stone 

Charles S Davidson Professor of Medicine, HMS

Chair, Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital

 

 

 



   ![Valerie Stone is wearing a black shirt under her white coat that has her name embroidered on it. She is also wearing gold earrings and pendant necklace.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11411/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2026-05/92.Valerie-E-Stone-Questions.jpg?h=16f098c7&itok=b9SbMX4w) 

 



 





 

**What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?**  
When I was in college, I became passionately concerned about disparities in health care, after my grandmother died as a results of cancer that was diagnosed much too late. I remain motivated every day by the desire to help ensure that every patients from every community has access to high quality health care. I believe that health equity is the defining health care issue of my generation, and the extent to which contribute to this goal is how measure my success.

**In what ways do you feel you contribute to the Harvard community?**  
As a faculty member, I have made a difference in the careers of medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty through my teaching, mentorship, and my very presence as an African American woman faculty member. In addition, I have shared my passionate commitment to providing outstanding primary care and HIV/AIDS care with every trainee, and have thereby influenced many students and residents to follow me into these critically important fields.

**What is the significance of the object you brought with you to the photo shoot?**  
I brought my white coat, because it defines who I am - a doctor, first and foremost. Even now as Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital, despite all of the myriad tasks on my plate, I continue to take care of patients and teach clinical medicine. I greatly enjoy and value contributing to patients' health and residents' and students' medical education; I know that I will continue my "doctoring" for the rest of my career.



 

 

 



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