Across Johns Hopkins Medicine are dozens of employees, faculty members and students who put forth exceptional efforts to advance and celebrate diversity and inclusiveness throughout the institution.

This year, the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council’s annual Diversity Recognition Award recipients include honorees from The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who made a difference through a variety of programs and resources for youths, immigrants and patients with breast cancer.

Since becoming program coordinator for the Johns Hopkins’ Center for Salud/ Health and Opportunity for Latinos (Centro SOL) in 2014, Monica Guerrero Vazquez has helped establish an annual summer program for bilingual high school students and developed a weekly support group for immigrants.

Thanks to the devoted work of School of Medicine faculty member Karen Fleming and Whiting School of Engineering student Dominic Scalise, the “Women of Hopkins” exhibit and online resource launched in 2016 to highlight more than 20 trailblazing Johns Hopkins women whose contributions to science, art, medicine, business and other fields have made the world a better place.

As the director of the Summer Academic Research Experience, retired schoolteacher Cathryn Kabacoff provides personalized tutoring to boost underrepresented high school students’ reading, writing and math skills while they participate in the program’s summer research experience.

Mary Ann Kalin, a director in the Johns Hopkins Health System’s Legal Department, created a 465-member Diversity Council for Patient Financial Services and helps with cultural education and special events as part of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Finance and Supply Chain Diversity Council.

A national leader in the care of adolescent sexual minority of color, Renata Sanders, assistant professor of pediatrics, works to improve care for African-American gay, bisexual and transgender youths.

Clinical research fellow Charalampos Siotos’ studies on patients’ safety and quality of life after breast reconstruction have helped physicians become more accountable and efficient in treating a diverse population of patients.

To view the complete list of 2017 awardees, visit web.jhu.edu/dlc.