L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and chief science officer and vice chief academic officer for Advocate Health, was recently inducted into the Johns Hopkins Women’s Medical Alumnae Association Hall of Fame.
The hall of fame was established in 1993 to recognize the contributions of the extraordinary women alumni and faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Boulware is a renowned health equity researcher and thought leader. Throughout her career, she has established groundbreaking programs to improve health equity for individuals with chronic illnesses and she has championed efforts to diversify the workforce in science and medicine.
Boulware received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College and her medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland and came to Johns Hopkins in 1999 to earn her M.P.H. in epidemiology with a subsequent research fellowship. She joined the faculty as a core member of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research in 2002 and rose to full professor.
In 2013, Boulware was recruited from Johns Hopkins to Duke to serve as chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and became the inaugural director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, playing a key role in accelerating science translation. In 2023, she joined Wake Forest University School of Medicine as the second woman and first Black dean and leads the academic core for Advocate Health, the nation’s third largest nonprofit health system.