Linda Grace Solis, Ph.D.

10:00–11:30 a.m. | PANEL: Understanding Implicit Bias & its Impact on Healthcare Leadership (1.5 Face-to-Face Education Credits)

Linda Grace Solis, Ph.D. believes deeply in racial and social justice and is dedicated to educating physicians and future physicians, encouraging them to embrace a holistic, open-minded, and culturally and socially aware mindset. Dr. Solis is also passionate about opening doors for individuals who are from communities which have been historically excluded from medicine, and about increasing diversity in all aspects of medical education. She is a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant, working with organizations desiring to increase their constitutional diversity and create an inclusive and equitable workplace.

Dr. Solis holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration, and earned her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. She serves as chair for The Council on Diversity and Equity at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and for the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio Commission. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the National Healthcare Diversity Council. She belongs to several other professional organizations that promote equity, inclusion and justice in medicine and beyond, including the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) and the NAACP.

Dr. Solis is married to Mr. Felix Solis, III. She is an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction and believes that all books are improved with the addition of cats, coffee, and chocolate.