Damani A. Piggott — "Thriving in Medicine and Science"

Damani Piggott, MD ’05, PhD ‘04 will deliver the inaugural Forrester “Woody” Lee Lecture, and will be introduced by Dr. Lee.

The talk is part of Second Look. All members of the YSM community are encouraged to attend.

Speaker

Piggott is the inaugural Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University, and an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Piggott has worked on clinical and research projects in urban and rural communities in the US, the Caribbean, West Africa, and South Africa. He is actively engaged in the clinical care of patients with HIV. His research centers on understanding the biological, behavioral, and social determinant pathways necessary to improve survival and quality of life for persons aging with HIV.

Dr. Piggott graduated from Morehouse College, obtained his PhD degree in Immunology and his MD from Yale, and completed residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Scholar, Dr. Piggott is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Forrester “Woody” Lee Lecture

This lectureship honors Dr. Lee, YSM ’79, the first Associate Dean for Diversity at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Lee developed programs that supported over 2,000 underrepresented college students on their paths to careers in medicine and science, many of whom applied to and matriculated at Yale School of Medicine.