Preetha Basaviah Elected To Brown University’s Board Of Trustees

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India-West Staff Reporter

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Preetha Basaviah, a Brown alumna and renowned physician and educator, has been elected to Brown University’s Board of Trustees. The decision was announced during the Corporation’s annual spring meeting in May.

A 1991 graduate of Brown University with a degree in biology, Dr. Basaviah went on to earn her medical degree from Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School in 1995. She currently serves as a professor of clinical medicine and an advising dean at Stanford University.

With a career spanning some of the country’s top institutions, Dr. Basaviah completed her internal medicine residency and served as chief resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard. She continued with a fellowship in medical education at the Harvard Institute for Education and Research and was among the first hospitalists at Beth Israel. She later held academic roles at the University of California, San Francisco, before joining Stanford in 2006.

At Stanford, she leads educational efforts within the CARE initiative (Compassion, Advocacy, Respect, Empathy), is a teaching academy member, and continues to practice as an attending physician. Her dedication to medical education has earned her national recognition, including the prestigious “Educator of the Year” honor from the Society of General Internal Medicine.

Basaviah, who has been deeply engaged in student mentorship and academic leadership, will formally begin her term in October. Trustees typically serve six-year terms.