SWIMC Speakers
Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH
Dr. Partridge is the founder and director of the Young and Strong Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. She is also the director of the adult survivorship program at Dana-Farber, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Partridge is a medical oncologist focusing on the care of young women with breast cancer, and has particular interest in the psychosocial, behavioral and communication issues in breast cancer care and treatment.
She also has expertise in leadership programming and mentoring underrepresented minority and female faculty members.
Rhonda Acholonu, MD
Rhonda Graves Acholonu, MD, joined Montefiore in 2017 as Vice Chair for Education, Co-Director for Leadership, Engagement and Diversity Program and as an Attending Physician in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM). Dr. Acholonu is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her areas of interest include maximizing opportunities for education across the continuum by utilizing innovative instructional methods and theories as well as incorporating diversity and inclusion initiatives into educational curricula.
Dr. Acholonu received her Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1997 from Georgetown University. In 2001, she went on to earn her medical degree from MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine. She completed an internship, residency and chief residency from 2001 to 2005 at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Acholonu is interested in thinking broadly about the clinical learning environment with a specific focus on feedback and evaluation as well the impact of implicit bias and microaggressions on that clinical setting. Her work has been featured both regionally and nationally in workshops and Grand Rounds. She has served on numerous committees, particularly related to faculty diversity and inclusion as well as house staff and faculty selection committees.
Dr. Acholonu has been recognized broadly for her work and received numerous awards, including the MSI AHEC Champions of Diversity Health Professions Educator Award in 2016 and the Award for Exemplary Achievement in Medical Education, also in 2016.
Dr. Acholonu is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the Academic Pediatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Stew Friedman, PhD
A member of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania faculty since 1984, Stew is the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program. He also initiated and leads the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. While on a 2.5-year academic leave, Stew served as the senior executive at Ford Motor responsible for the company’s leadership development worldwide. An award-winning teacher, he appears regularly in business media and is in high demand as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and management consultant. He has been recognized twice as one of HR's Most Influential International Thinkers and three times as one of the world’s leading business thinkers by Thinkers50 who, in 2015, gave him the Distinguished Achievement Award in the talent management field. One of his many articles for HBR.org was listed first among Harvard Business Review's Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013. He was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents, and was recently honored by the Families and Work Institute with its Work Life Legacy Award. The author of two bestselling books, Stew’s most recent is Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life (Harvard Business, 2014). He delivered his popular Wharton leadership elective course via MOOC; 135K+ people enrolled and it was ranked second among all online courses at Penn. Every Tuesday at 7 PM Eastern Stew hosts Work and Life, his radio show on SiriusXM 132, Business Radio Powered by Wharton.