Cheryl A Maurana
Biographic Data
| ID | 6061050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl A Maurana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl A |
| FAMILY NAME | Maurana |
| SIGNATURE | MAURANA C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0663-7307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Restorative Practices, Freedom of Expression, and Executive Leadership: An Innovative Application of Restorative Practices in Academic Medicine
Introduction: Although proponents suggest that restorative practices (RP) could foster community in academic medicine, few published reports describe their application. Method: Our executive leaders partnered with RP and Freedom of Expression (FOE) teams to apply RP circles to challenges related to U.S. government Executive Actions (EAs). Follow-up surveys assessed RP-FOE linkage. Results: In early 2025, 152 individuals participated in 31 circles…
Bridging across differences toward flourishing in the profession of medicine
Bridging is a facilitative process that advances human flourishing by providing a framework for engagement across groups and between individuals with different views. It aims to increase understanding and find common ground. When rooted in character, caring, and practical wisdom, and practiced intentionally and consistently, bridging has the potential to shape the ecosystems in which we live and work, fostering deep meaning and purpose. We propos…
Could Changing the Language From Social “Determinants” to Social “Dynamics” of Health Encourage Transformational Change
Response to: ‘A flourishing-centered curriculum can only thrive through the embrace of diversity’
Dear EditorWe thank Woltman and Cecilio-Fernandes [3] for the comments on our article [2]. The authors make relevant and important points regarding the need for a flourishing-centered curriculum to
We Need to Talk: Advancing Open Inquiry
In this article, the authors explore the current state of divisiveness in U.S. society and its impact on medical schools. Higher education institutions are increasingly faced with challenges in supporting freedom of speech while respecting marginalized groups who may feel attacked by certain kinds of speech. “Cancel culture” has resulted in misunderstandings, job loss, and a growing fear of expressing ideas that may offend someone. These dynamics…
Advancing flourishing as the north star of medical education: A call for personal and professional development as key to becoming physicians
Over the past 15 years, multiple calls to transform medical education, and by extension, health sciences education, have addressed issues pertaining to learners' subjective experiences as well as the learning environment. By and large, these calls to transform share many of the same themes: greater engagement with the humanities, enhanced professional identity formation, leadership development, as well as systemic changes to enhance meaning, purp…
Advancing Salary Equity in Schools of Medicine in the United States
Equity, in broad terms, is a critical issue and has been identified as an area that needs particular attention in academic medicine. Gender equity, as a subset of overall equity, has equally been shown to be lacking in academic medicine, and most medical schools and academic health systems are involved in substantive journeys to improve all dimensions of equity, diversity, and inclusion. This Invited Commentary calls for including gender-based sa…
Leading With Shared Values: Developing a Charter of Principles for Philanthropic Partnerships
The rise of greater individuality in giving — in diversity of beliefs and donor preferences — has resulted in a need to ensure alignment of values and expectations between those entering into funding relationships, and therefore a need to return to giving that recognizes the importance of conditions and considerations that undergird the partnership between the philanthropic organization and awardee. The Kern Family Foundation’s nearly $88 million…
The IWill MCW Campaign: Individual Actions to Advance Gender Equity
Advancing equity for women remains an urgent and complex problem at academic health centers. Attempts to mitigate gender gaps have ranged widely and have been both slow to occur and limited in effect. Recognizing the limitations of previously attempted solutions and fueled by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) stepped outside known approaches (e.g., women’s leadership plans and programming) to design and imp…
Turning Changemaking Inward: How One Health Philanthropy Transformed Its Grantmaking Approach to Drive Deeper Impact
In 2014, the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment made a significant shift in focus to supporting adaptive rather than programmatic solutions to address critical health issues, and adopted a new approach that emphasized engagement with key stakeholders, recognizing the importance of contribution over attribution and requiring a long-term perspective on outcomes. The endowment identified three new “changemaker” …
Opening the Black Box: Conceptualizing Community Engagement From 109 Community–Academic Partnership Programs
Opening the Black Box: Conceptualizing Community Engagement From 109 Community–Academic Partnership Programs
The case analysis revealed new insights into the characteristics of these themes, which the authors then grouped into three categories: foundational attributes of successful community-academic partnership, potential challenges of community-academic partnerships, and outcomes of community-academic partnerships. The insights gained from these reports further supports previous research extolling the benefits of community-academic partnerships and pr…
A Model to Translate Evidence-Based Interventions Into Community Practice
There is a tension between 2 alternative approaches to implementing community-based interventions. The evidence-based public health movement emphasizes the scientific basis of prevention by disseminating rigorously evaluated interventions from academic and governmental agencies to local communities. Models used by local health departments to incorporate community input into their planning, such as the community health improvement process (CHIP), …
Community Advocates in Public Housing
Tenant safety patrolDeveloped in response to safety concerns in the building.Patrol members received 10 hours of training.Advocates work in teams of 2 for regularly scheduled shifts.Program has had a significant impact on security in the building.General equivalency diploma preparation programProgram meets weekly and provides material and informal tutoring.Volunteer teacher from the community assists the advocates with the program.Health committe…
Moving From Medical Student Placement to a Community‐Academic Partnership With a Rural Community
This article explains a partnership‐based community education model, which uses as an example a partnership between the Center for Healthy Communities in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the rural Marion area of central Wisconsin. MCW is similar to other medical schools in that it has a strong history and philosophy of placing students in communities for educational purposes. This artic…
Strategies for Developing a Successful Community Health Advocate Program
“We want someone who looks and talks like us to help us find ways to be healthier.” This quote, from a Dayton, Ohio, community leader in 1992, led to the development of a community health advocate program with a focus on neighbors helping neighbors to improve health. This article describes advocacy at the individual level and outlines the step-by-step process taken in Dayton to develop a community health advocate program. This process includes: (…
Opening the Black Box: Conceptualizing Community Engagement From 109 Community–Academic Partnership Programs
The case analysis revealed new insights into the characteristics of these themes, which the authors then grouped into three categories: foundational attributes of successful community-academic partnership, potential challenges of community-academic partnerships, and outcomes of community-academic partnerships. The insights gained from these reports further supports previous research extolling the benefits of community-academic partnerships and pr…
A Model to Translate Evidence-Based Interventions Into Community Practice
There is a tension between 2 alternative approaches to implementing community-based interventions. The evidence-based public health movement emphasizes the scientific basis of prevention by disseminating rigorously evaluated interventions from academic and governmental agencies to local communities. Models used by local health departments to incorporate community input into their planning, such as the community health improvement process (CHIP), …
Moving From Medical Student Placement to a Community‐Academic Partnership With a Rural Community
This article explains a partnership‐based community education model, which uses as an example a partnership between the Center for Healthy Communities in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the rural Marion area of central Wisconsin. MCW is similar to other medical schools in that it has a strong history and philosophy of placing students in communities for educational purposes. This artic…
Strategies for Developing a Successful Community Health Advocate Program
“We want someone who looks and talks like us to help us find ways to be healthier.” This quote, from a Dayton, Ohio, community leader in 1992, led to the development of a community health advocate program with a focus on neighbors helping neighbors to improve health. This article describes advocacy at the individual level and outlines the step-by-step process taken in Dayton to develop a community health advocate program. This process includes: (…
Community Advocates in Public Housing
Tenant safety patrolDeveloped in response to safety concerns in the building.Patrol members received 10 hours of training.Advocates work in teams of 2 for regularly scheduled shifts.Program has had a significant impact on security in the building.General equivalency diploma preparation programProgram meets weekly and provides material and informal tutoring.Volunteer teacher from the community assists the advocates with the program.Health committe…
A Model to Translate Evidence-Based Interventions Into Community Practice
There is a tension between 2 alternative approaches to implementing community-based interventions. The evidence-based public health movement emphasizes the scientific basis of prevention by disseminating rigorously evaluated interventions from academic and governmental agencies to local communities. Models used by local health departments to incorporate community input into their planning, such as the community health improvement process (CHIP), …
Opening the Black Box: Conceptualizing Community Engagement From 109 Community–Academic Partnership Programs
Opening the Black Box: Conceptualizing Community Engagement From 109 Community–Academic Partnership Programs
The case analysis revealed new insights into the characteristics of these themes, which the authors then grouped into three categories: foundational attributes of successful community-academic partnership, potential challenges of community-academic partnerships, and outcomes of community-academic partnerships. The insights gained from these reports further supports previous research extolling the benefits of community-academic partnerships and pr…
Turning Changemaking Inward: How One Health Philanthropy Transformed Its Grantmaking Approach to Drive Deeper Impact
In 2014, the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment made a significant shift in focus to supporting adaptive rather than programmatic solutions to address critical health issues, and adopted a new approach that emphasized engagement with key stakeholders, recognizing the importance of contribution over attribution and requiring a long-term perspective on outcomes. The endowment identified three new “changemaker” …
The IWill MCW Campaign: Individual Actions to Advance Gender Equity
Advancing equity for women remains an urgent and complex problem at academic health centers. Attempts to mitigate gender gaps have ranged widely and have been both slow to occur and limited in effect. Recognizing the limitations of previously attempted solutions and fueled by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) stepped outside known approaches (e.g., women’s leadership plans and programming) to design and imp…
Advancing Salary Equity in Schools of Medicine in the United States
Equity, in broad terms, is a critical issue and has been identified as an area that needs particular attention in academic medicine. Gender equity, as a subset of overall equity, has equally been shown to be lacking in academic medicine, and most medical schools and academic health systems are involved in substantive journeys to improve all dimensions of equity, diversity, and inclusion. This Invited Commentary calls for including gender-based sa…
Leading With Shared Values: Developing a Charter of Principles for Philanthropic Partnerships
The rise of greater individuality in giving — in diversity of beliefs and donor preferences — has resulted in a need to ensure alignment of values and expectations between those entering into funding relationships, and therefore a need to return to giving that recognizes the importance of conditions and considerations that undergird the partnership between the philanthropic organization and awardee. The Kern Family Foundation’s nearly $88 million…
We Need to Talk: Advancing Open Inquiry
In this article, the authors explore the current state of divisiveness in U.S. society and its impact on medical schools. Higher education institutions are increasingly faced with challenges in supporting freedom of speech while respecting marginalized groups who may feel attacked by certain kinds of speech. “Cancel culture” has resulted in misunderstandings, job loss, and a growing fear of expressing ideas that may offend someone. These dynamics…
Advancing flourishing as the north star of medical education: A call for personal and professional development as key to becoming physicians
Over the past 15 years, multiple calls to transform medical education, and by extension, health sciences education, have addressed issues pertaining to learners' subjective experiences as well as the learning environment. By and large, these calls to transform share many of the same themes: greater engagement with the humanities, enhanced professional identity formation, leadership development, as well as systemic changes to enhance meaning, purp…
Bridging across differences toward flourishing in the profession of medicine
Bridging is a facilitative process that advances human flourishing by providing a framework for engagement across groups and between individuals with different views. It aims to increase understanding and find common ground. When rooted in character, caring, and practical wisdom, and practiced intentionally and consistently, bridging has the potential to shape the ecosystems in which we live and work, fostering deep meaning and purpose. We propos…
Could Changing the Language From Social “Determinants” to Social “Dynamics” of Health Encourage Transformational Change
Response to: ‘A flourishing-centered curriculum can only thrive through the embrace of diversity’
Dear EditorWe thank Woltman and Cecilio-Fernandes [3] for the comments on our article [2]. The authors make relevant and important points regarding the need for a flourishing-centered curriculum to
Restorative Practices, Freedom of Expression, and Executive Leadership: An Innovative Application of Restorative Practices in Academic Medicine
Introduction: Although proponents suggest that restorative practices (RP) could foster community in academic medicine, few published reports describe their application. Method: Our executive leaders partnered with RP and Freedom of Expression (FOE) teams to apply RP circles to challenges related to U.S. government Executive Actions (EAs). Follow-up surveys assessed RP-FOE linkage. Results: In early 2025, 152 individuals participated in 31 circles…
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