Jane Gagliardi, MD, MHS, was honored with the Leonard Palumbo Jr., MD Faculty Achievement Award at the Duke University School of Medicine’s faculty and staff awards ceremony on May 12.
This award recognizes a School of Medicine faculty member who is dedicated to compassionate patient care and excellence in teaching and mentoring young physicians. The award, which includes a stipend to further the recipient’s academic development, was created in memory of Palumbo through an endowment gift by his brother, Duke alumnus Mr. E. Arthur Palumbo.
Gagliardi, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and professor of medicine, is known for her passion and gift for teaching and mentoring. She has been involved in education program leadership through most of her 20+ years as a Duke faculty member and has taught and mentored hundreds of medical students, psychiatry and medicine trainees, and junior faculty.
In the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Gagliardi served as the psychiatry residency associate program director from 2011 to 2013 and program director from 2013 to 2019, and as the medicine-psychiatry residency program director from 2019 to 2023. She held the position of vice chair for education from 2014 to 2021. In the Department of Medicine, she was the clerkship director from 2005 to 2014 and director of undergraduate medical education from 2007 to 2014.
In 2023, Gagliardi was appointed associate dean for learning environment and well-being, providing centralized services to support students and others in the clinical and learning environments across all School of Medicine health professions education programs. She also plays a significant role in undergraduate medical education: she’s the founding co-director of the evidence-based medicine course and a longtime facilitator in the clinical skills course.
In addition to her leadership and education roles, Dr. Gagliardi is a highly skilled clinician who cares for patients in general medicine, combined medicine-psychiatry, and emergency psychiatry services.