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Dr. Maurana is the Interim Provost, Professor, and Founding Director of the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine (KNN). The KNN was created as part of a generous gift of $37.9M in 2017 and $50M in 2022 from the Kern Family Foundation. As a national movement, the KNN focuses on integrating four foundational elements within the profession of medicine: caring, character, practical wisdom and human flourishing. As the Stephen and Shelagh Roell Endowed Chair, Dr. Maurana began leadership for the development and implementation of the MCW Flourishing Initiative. The Initiative is dedicated to transforming how MCW advances education and creating environments where all can flourish by placing character, caring and practical wisdom at the heart of health professions preparation.

Dr. Maurana also serves as MCW’s Senior Vice President for Strategic Academic Partnerships responsible for expanding inter-institutional academic efforts. She provided collaborative leadership for the development of MCW’s Green Bay and Central Wisconsin medical education campuses and creation of the School of Pharmacy. Both medicine and pharmacy have an innovative three-year curriculum, reducing student debt. On January 1, Dr. Maurana became Interim Provost. As MCW’s Chief Academic Officer, she will lead a restructuring of the Provost’s Office and chair a task force to develop a plan for MCW as a flourishing health sciences university of the future.

Dr. Maurana served as the Senior Associate Dean and Founding Director of Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin (AHW) Endowment for its first twenty years. AHW, which was created from a Blue Cross/Blue Shield conversion, is dedicated to improving health through community-academic partnerships, research, and education. She served as one of the nine board members of the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health, the public body mandated by the Insurance Commissioner to oversee the Endowment. Since 2004, AHW has invested over $337 million of its more than $500M in assets in more than 600 projects that have improved the lives of people throughout Wisconsin.

In 2007, Dr. Maurana launched MCW’s PhD in Public and Community Health focused on community-based participatory research, the first of its kind nationally. In 2010, she served as the founding director for the Institute for Health and Society. For five years, she served as a co-principal investigator for the highly competitive $20M NIH Clinical and Translational Science Institute for Southeast Wisconsin and leader for its Community Engagement component.

Dr. Maurana is known for her strategic and innovative thinking, her work in building community-academic partnerships, and her commitment to women’s leadership. She received MCW’s Distinguished Service Award in 2016, the MCW Honorary Alumna Award in 2022, and in 2023, was awarded the MCW Eminent Scholar designation that recognizes exceptional academic and scholarly achievement. The designation is the highest recognition of academic excellence for faculty members at MCW. She also received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Seton Hill in 2007.

Dr. Maurana has built a number of collaborations, both within MCW and with communities, to improve health in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin. She is a Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity contributing to its Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Dr. Maurana has been principal or co- investigator on more than 60 grants in health services research and community health, among other areas, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and has consistently presented her work at national meetings. She received her BA from Seton Hill College and PhD in Sociology from Purdue, completing a four-year U.S. Public Health Service Fellowship in health services research.