Senior Lab Research Analyst
Congratulations to Tara McNair, Senior Lab Research Analyst in the Department of Surgery, on receiving the Duke School of Medicine's 2024 Champion of Inclusion Dean's Staff Award.
This award recognizes a staff member who demonstrates exemplary leadership toward inclusive excellence and exhibits a high level of respect for and service to others. This staff member carries the ideals of equity, diversity, and inclusion into practice.
McNair has worked at Duke since 2013. Her nominators wrote that she goes above and beyond on a regular basis to assume primary responsibility for some meetings and report-outs, generating minutes, communicating with participants and partners, organizing activities, and “keeping the energy level and engagement high.” She has been instrumental in growing outreach initiatives to reach more underrepresented students as part of the Sustaining Equity, Elevating Diversity in Surgery (SEEDS) initiative.