AMA Prioritizing Equity

This edition of the Prioritizing Equity series follows recent policy adopted at the AMA’s House of Delegates meeting in June 2022 as panelists will discuss gender equity in medicine and how COVID-19 has exacerbated experiences for people identifying as women. The episode will also explore both historical and present inequities in medical education, employment, and leadership opportunities.

Panelists

• Dr. Tania Jenkins is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of North Caroli both historical and present inequities in medical education, employment, and leadership opportunities. na-Chapel Hill and a faculty research fellow at UNC's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Twitter: @TaniaMJenkins
• Jasmine Brown is a 4th year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, a Rhodes Scholar and the author of TWICE AS HARD: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians from the Civil War to the 21st Century.
• Dr. Deena Shin McRae, MD, is the Associate Vice President of Academic Health Sciences for University of California and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at UC Irvine School of Medicine

Moderator

• Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank

Police brutality, racism and COVID-19 have uniquely, and detrimentally, impacted the health of Black communities. In the June 4, 2020 installment of our Prioritizing Equity series, health equity leaders discuss how physicians and others can address root causes of inequity by naming racism.

Panel:

• Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician and child health advocate at Palo Alto Medical Foundation and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
• Edwin G. Lindo, JD, lecturer, Department of Family Medicine at University of Washington and associate director critical teach and equity at Center for Leadership and Innovation in Medical Education
• Rupa Marya, MD, associate professor of medicine at UCSF and faculty director of the Do No Harm Coalition, an organization of over 450 health workers committed to structural change to address health problems
• Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, FASCP, chief medical examiner of the Nation’s Capital
• Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Perelman School of Medicine and board-certified general internist at the University of Pennsylvania Presbyterian Medical Center

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: June 4th, 2020

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Explore the ways COVID-19 may uniquely impact Native communities across the country in the May 21, 2020 installment of our YouTube Prioritizing Equity series. Hear from leaders on topics such as how to build trust with Native communities who may be skeptical of the medical field, highlight how COVID-19 is affecting Native communities, and more.

Panel:

• Mary Owen, MD | Tlingit Tribe: Director for the Center of American Indian and Minority Health and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Owen practices at Fond du Lac Nation clinic in Duluth, Minnesota.
• Edgar Villanueva | Lumbee Tribe: Chair of the board of directors of Native Americans in Philanthropy and board member of the Andrus Family Fund. He is a renowned expert in social justice philanthropy.
• Donald Warne, MD, MPH | Oglala Lakota Tribe: Associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion as well as the director of the Indians Into Medicine (INMED) and Master of Public Health programs, and professor of family and community medicine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota. He also serves as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board in Rapid City, SD. Dr. Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, SD and comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men.
• Shannon Zullo, MD | Navajo Tribe: Medical Student Section Representative on the AMA Minority Affairs Section Governing Council. She grew up on the Navajo Nation in Chinle, Arizona, and recently graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She will begin her residency in internal medicine later this year at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, followed by a dermatology residency at the University of California, San Francisco.

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer

Originally aired: May 21st, 2020

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Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.

This June 18, 2020 installment of Prioritizing Equity focused on how COVID-19 may uniquely impact LGBTQ individuals and communities. Hear from LGBTQ physician leaders on topics such as the pandemic’s impact on testing, trends and equity concerns in health care and beyond.

Panel:

• Oni Blackstock, MD—Assistant commissioner for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of HIV
• Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, FASA, FAMIA—Senior associate dean and director, Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment
• David J. Malebranche, MD, MPH—Associate professor of medicine, director, Student Employee Health Services at Morehouse School of Medicine
• Shilpen Patel, MD, FACRO, FASTRO—Radiation oncologist, associate professor in the UW Department of Global Health and affiliate appointment in the Division of Public Health at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
• Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH, FACP—Senior director of research and education at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center.

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

Originally aired: June 18th, 2020

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Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.

In the AMA's October 29, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, health care leaders held a critical conversation on approaches to dismantling race-based medicine across clinical practice, education and research.

Panel:

• Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, FASN, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, director of health equity, anti-racism and community engagement
• Rohan Khazanchi, BA, MD/MPH candidate, medical student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center & University of Minnesota School of Public Health; member of the AMA Council on Medical Education and the AMA Medical Student Section’s Region 2 delegation chair
• Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, co-founder, EqualHealth; assistant professor, Harvard Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow
• Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd, emergency medicine physician, writer, educator and advocate in New Haven, Connecticut
• Darshali Vyas, MD, second-year resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA

Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer and vice president

Originally aired: October 29th, 2020

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