Mary E. Dankoski, PhD

Mary Dankoski, PhD is Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development at Indiana University School of Medicine, where she is also the Lester D. Bibler Professor of Family Medicine. Dr. Dankoski’s interests include the advancement of women and underrepresented minority faculty, the study of faculty vitality, how policies shape faculty life, and organizational and faculty development in academic medicine. From 2007-2012 she directed programs for the advancement of women, which led to the school receiving the Organizational Leadership Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Women in Medicine and Science (2009). Dr. Dankoski is also the recipient of the Outstanding Woman Leader award given by Indiana University Indianapolis (2014), the host campus of IU School of Medicine. She has served as President of the Indiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and on the Executive Board of Directors of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy as the Chair of the Council of Division Presidents. In addition, Dr. Dankoski has served on committees of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Faculty Affairs and is the Associate Editor of the Faculty Affairs Collection in MedEd Portal, an online repository of peer-reviewed educational scholarship. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and earned her PhD in marriage and family therapy with a graduate minor in women’s studies from Purdue University.