AAN Leadership Development
Cultivating leaders. Building neurology's future.
Diversity Leadership
Leadership Programs
The AAN recognizes the importance of having leaders who reflect the demographics of our members and the patients they serve. Through this empowering and inspirational leadership program, participants develop their critical leadership skills.
The 2025 application period is now closed.
Why choose the AAN’s Diversity Leadership Program?
No other program in the country matches this caliber of all-expenses-paid leadership development opportunity that incorporates training, personalized coaching, and mentoring.
Hope O'Brien MD, FAAN, on the Diversity Leadership Program
What to expect – program overview
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The 2025 Diversity Leadership Program is supported in part by:
Champion level
Advocate level
Associate level
Genetech
Lilly
Look at what participants are saying!
The AAN's Diversity Leadership Program has given me the opportunity to better understand what is indispensable for a successful career as a physician and leader in our field. This program has revealed how essential it is to align my passions and core values, as well as my personal vision and life mission, to the strategic implementation of actionable plans that will result in equitable health care, which is my goal. Truly, I feel blessed and I am grateful for my participation and collaboration with other leaders in our field. I urge physicians who identify as underrepresented in medicine to apply!
Clarimar Borrero-Mejias, MD
The Diversity Leadership Program was a transformative career experience. I gained a stronger understanding of the AAN opportunities, a network of peers that have become friends, and a clearer plan of how to build a career that serves my priorities and society at large.
Gerson Suarez-Cedeño, MD
Learn about AAN diversity initiatives
To promote greater diversity and inclusion, the AAN has developed a diversification strategy to engage AAN members from underrepresented groups.
Contact us
For additional information please contact Amy Nostdahl, Associate Director, Member Leadership Development at (612) 928-6033.