As Associate Dean for Learning Environment and Well-being, Dr. Jane Gagliardi leads the Office of Learning Environment and Well-Being (“Le Well”), which provides centralized services to support students in clinical education programs in the School of Medicine with a guiding principle that all School of Medicine students should have equitable and just access to support services provided by individuals who are not in a position to evaluate them and regardless of program, advisor, connections or identity. Through Le Well, Dr. Gagliardi works to identify and connect students to resources to optimally support their health, learning needs, and wellbeing.

Dr. Gagliardi is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine. She earned her MD degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 1998. She completed her residency in combined Internal Medicine-Psychiatry and served as chief resident before joining the faculty in 2003. She earned her MHS degree through Duke’s Clinical Research Training Program in 2009. She has served in a variety of educational leadership roles including Associate Program Director for the combined residency in Medicine-Psychiatry, Director of the clerkship, subinternship and Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Medicine, Associate Program Director for the Psychiatry residency, Program Director for the Psychiatry residency and combined residency in Internal Medicine-Psychiatry, Vice Chair for Education in Psychiatry, and founding course co-director for Duke’s longstanding course for medical students in Evidence-Based Medicine. She has gained over a decade of experience in patient safety and quality improvement as well as over two decades of experience contributing to institutional initiatives regarding medication safety, formulary considerations. She provides patient care in emergency and acute settings in psychiatry, internal medicine, and the combination. She is passionate about understanding and pursuing ways to optimize the system to the benefit of patients first, as well as all others in the healthcare workplace.

Dr. Gagliardi is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She is the Associate Director for the University of California, Irvine-based Train New Trainers fellowship programs, dedicated to integrating behavioral health care into primary care practice. She is a past president of the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry and a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.