The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) awarded the 2007 Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship to Thomas D. Sequist, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of medicine and of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Sequist is also a practicing general internist.

The fellowship “recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member who demonstrates leadership in addressing inequities in medical education and health care, demonstrates efforts to address educational, societal, and health care needs of minorities, and is committed to a career in academic medicine.” Sequist received the grant at the AAMC annual meeting in early November.

Sequist’s research focuses on primarily on Native American health care, ambulatory quality-improvement strategies, and the intersection between quality of care and health disparities. As part of his commitment to the advancement of Native Americans in the medical field, he has served for over 10 years as director of the HMS Four Directions Program.