Stackables Team Member
Doris M. Rubio, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor, Clinical Research Education and Training in the Health Sciences; Director, Institute for Clinical Research Education; Professor, Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science
Dr. Rubio is a national leader in clinical research education and a champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the biomedical research workforce. As Director of Pitt’s Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE), Dr. Rubio oversees degree-granting and career-development programs for clinical and translational science researchers. Dr. Rubio has been particularly committed to mentoring and developing faculty of color and women in science. She started the Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS) program, which is a collaboration with nine Minority Serving Institutions to launch the research careers of junior investigators. Additionally, she has a U01 under the NIH’s Diversity Program Consortium and the National Research Mentoring Network to test an intervention across 25 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) to retain underrepresented biomedical researchers in research careers. Among other honors, Dr. Rubio received the Educator of the Year Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) in 2016 and the ACTS Award for Contributing to the Diversity and Inclusiveness of the Translational Research Workforce in 2021. She was also awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Award in 2021, given her work on diversifying the workforce both locally and nationally. Dr. Rubio recognized the need for more flexible clinical research training early on, and she has been a stalwart champion of Stackables.
Stackables Team Member
Doris M. Rubio, PhD
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Clinical Research Education and Training in the Health Sciences; Director, Institute for Clinical Research Education; Professor, Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science
Dr. Rubio is a national leader in clinical research education and a champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the biomedical research workforce. As Director of Pitt’s Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE), Dr. Rubio oversees degree-granting and career-development programs for clinical and translational science researchers. Dr. Rubio has been particularly committed to mentoring and developing faculty of color and women in science. She started the Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS) program, which is a collaboration with nine Minority Serving Institutions to launch the research careers of junior investigators. Additionally, she has a U01 under the NIH’s Diversity Program Consortium and the National Research Mentoring Network to test an intervention across 25 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) to retain underrepresented biomedical researchers in research careers. Among other honors, Dr. Rubio received the Educator of the Year Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) in 2016 and the ACTS Award for Contributing to the Diversity and Inclusiveness of the Translational Research Workforce in 2021. She was also awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Award in 2021, given her work on diversifying the workforce both locally and nationally. Dr. Rubio recognized the need for more flexible clinical research training early on, and she has been a stalwart champion of Stackables.
