{"id":44655,"date":"2017-02-24T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=44655"},"modified":"2017-02-24T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T19:38:18","slug":"rafael-ortega-received-2017-giving-back-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/02\/24\/rafael-ortega-received-2017-giving-back-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Ortega Received 2017 Giving Back Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/rafael_edited1-1024x904-636x561.jpg\" alt=\"COM_rafaelortega\" class=\"wp-image-44658 alignright\" width=\"245\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/rafael_edited1-1024x904-636x561.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/rafael_edited1-1024x904-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/02\/rafael_edited1-1024x904.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Rafael Ortega, MD, was recently recognized with 2017 Giving Back Awards from<em> INSIGHT Into Diversity<\/em> magazine, the oldest and largest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The 39 Giving Back Award recipients were nominated by their colleagues and selected by INSIGHT Into Diversity based on their outstanding demonstration of social responsibility; involvement with students, faculty, staff, and the community; and commitment to serving underrepresented populations. Each honoree is recognized for his or her passion, dedication, and support for diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Ortega is entirely committed to diversity and inclusion, and has established a friendly and all-encompassing environment on campus by coordinating a variety of activities to recognize and celebrate the heterogeneity of our faculty, staff and students,\u201d explained Vafa Akhtar-Khavari, Ed.M, instructor of anesthesiology at BUSM who nominated Ortega for the award.<\/p>\n<p>The Giving Back Award honors college and university administrators who go above and beyond their everyday leadership duties and \u201cgive back\u201d to their campuses and communities. Ortega is also a professor and Vice Chairman of Academic Affairs in the department of anesthesiology at BUSM and an anesthesiologist at BMC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Rafael Ortega, MD, was nominated by his colleagues for the 2017 Giving Back Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,146,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44655"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44801,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44655\/revisions\/44801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}