College Regent becomes Harvard Department of Medicine's first African-American full professor

Valerie Stone, FACP, a member of ACP's Board of Regents, has been named a full professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is the first African-American full professor in Harvard Medical School's Department of Medicine and the first female African-American full professor at MGH.

Dr. Stone is the director of the primary care internal residency program and associate chief for teaching and training of the general internal medicine division at MGH. She has joint appointments in MGH's and Harvard Medical School's general medicine and infectious diseases divisions.

Dr. Stone received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and did her residency in internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals in Cleveland. She completed a health services research fellowship at Harvard and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Boston University School of Medicine Hospitals. Dr. Stone was elected a College Regent in 2010.