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Abbreviations used in the Text -- Introduction -- Section 1: Getting Started -- Setting Initial Goals -- Expectations -- Dealing with Your Predecessor -- Section 2: Interpersonal Interactions, Culture, and Behavior -- Communication -- Organizational Culture -- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion -- Building Collaborations and Collegiality -- Promoting Department Work-Life Balance -- Negotiation -- Section 3: Operational Issues -- Organizing the Department -- Strategic Planning -- Resources -- Budgets and Finance -- Balancing the Missions -- Crisis Management -- Section 4: Faculty Issues -- Faculty Recruitment and Retention -- Faculty Career Development and Wellness -- Faculty Compensation Plans -- Dealing with Difficult Faculty -- Section 5: Student and Trainee Issues -- Student and Trainee Recruitment -- Student and Trainee Career Development and Wellness -- Dealing with Difficult Students and Trainees -- Section 6: Staff Issues -- Staff Recruitment and Retention -- Staff Career Development and Wellness -- Staff Compensation -- Dealing with Difficult or Unproductive Staff -- Section 7: Interactions Beyond Your Department -- Interacting with Institutional Leaders -- Interdepartmental Interactions -- Departmental and Institutional Alignment -- Interactions with External Entities -- Fundraising and Donor Development -- Section 8: Personal Issues -- Leadership Attributes -- Getting Advice and Assistance -- Handling Reviews -- Achieving Work-Life Balance -- Career Transitioning -- Changing Positions -- Final Thoughts -- Acknowledgements -- References -- About the Authors.

Despite yearly advances in life-saving and preventive medicine, as well as strategic approaches by governmental and social agencies and groups, significant disparities remain in health, health quality, and access to health care within the United States. The determinants of these disparities include baseline health status, race and ethnicity, culture, gender identity and expression, socioeconomic status, region or geography, sexual orientation, and age. In order to renew the commitment of the medical community to address health disparities, particularly at the medical school level, we must remind ourselves of the roles of doctors and medical schools as the gatekeepers and the value setters for medicine. Within those roles are responsibilities toward the social mission of working to eliminate health disparities. This effort will require partnerships with communities as well as with academic centers to actively develop and to implement diversity and inclusion strategies. Besides improving the diversity of trainees in the pipeline, access to health care can be improved, and awareness can be raised regarding population-based health inequalities.