Academic and Research Skills
Advocacy
Clinical Research
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Health Services Research
Leadership and Business Training
Medical Education
Trainee Track
Joseph Wright, MD MPH
Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer
Pediatrics
University of Maryland Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Jessica Hippolyte, MD MPH (she/her/hers)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow
Children's National Health System
Children's National Hospital
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Session
Description: The last several years have seen an emphasis on addressing the systemic challenges that fuel inequities in patient care delivery and that drive disparate and deleterious health outcomes for marginalized and minoritized communities. Leveling the clinical playing field through identifying and dismantling race-based algorithms and practice guidelines is a critically important step towards establishing equitable systems of care. However, a comprehensive approach to broadly applying an equity and anti-racism lens in academic pediatrics also necessitates implementing reforms across all educational, research and teaching environments. Only through authentic institutional commitment and disruptive resolve can the longstanding structures that undergird and support ongoing bias in all corners of academic medicine be called out, unwound and replaced. This transformational work must be carried out simultaneously on multiple fronts. A concerted, multipronged approach is necessary for the generational horizon of healthy academic relationships, novel transdisciplinary partnerships, and re-envisioned science to be fully realized.
The assembled panel is comprised of trainee, junior, mid-career and senior faculty whose perspectives are representative of the synergistic value of differential lived and professional experiences, and representative of the diverse spectrum of academic leadership required to move ahead. The panel’s collective scholarship has contributed foundational research to exploring implicit bias, microaggressions and the experiences of those underrepresented in medicine. They are also providing recognized leadership to the advancement of equity and anti-racism within, and across, all of the Pediatric Academic Societies partner organizations.
Speaker: Joseph L. Wright, MD MPH – University of Maryland Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Speaker: Jessica Hippolyte, MD MPH (she/her/hers) – Children's National Health System
Speaker: Aisha Barber, MD MEd (she/her/hers) – Children's National Hospital
Speaker: Tiffani J. Johnson, MD, Mac (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Speaker: Monika Goyal, MD, MSCE (she/her/hers) – Children's National Health System