Eve Higginbotham

Affiliation

University of Pennyslvania

Biography

Dr. Eve Higginbotham is the inaugural Vice Dean for Inclusion and Diversity of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a position she assumed on August 1, 2013. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2000, serving on National Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Sciences consensus committees, the NAM Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity, and most recently, she chaired the consensus committee entitled, “Impact of COVID 19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM.” Dr. Higginbotham is a member of the Governing Board of the National Research Council and represents the NAM on the National Academy of Sciences Investment Committee and the Committee on Classified Controlled Activities. She has broad governance including serving as a Past President of the AΩA Honor Medical Society and previous membership on the Harvard Board of Overseers and the MIT Corporation. Dr. Higginbotham currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ascension, for which she serves as a member of the Executive and Audit Committees, and she chairs the Quality Committee for the System. Ascension is the second largest private health system in the United States, with hospitals and clinical sites in 20 states and the District of Columbia. A graduate of MIT with S.B. and S.M. degrees in chemical engineering and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Higginbotham completed her residency in ophthalmology at LSU and fellowship training at the MEEI in Boston. In 2020, she completed a Masters in Law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Dr. Higginbotham lists over 160 peer reviewed publications. She is a glaucoma specialist and continues to remain active in scholarship related to glaucoma, ocular pharmacology, health policy, health and gender equity, and organizational culture.