The inaugural Healio Equity Award winner is ...
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During this year’s ACG 2020 Virtual meeting, Healio hosted its annual Disruptive Innovators Award ceremony.
These awards stem from the disruption that Healio caused in gastroenterology by using a Peer Tested concept to deliver in print what physicians read online. Using analytics, data and social media, what is trending online is delivered to your mailbox. The Healio Disruptive Innovators represent the revolutionary mindset of Healio Gastroenterology.
From social media giants to health equity, these Healio Disruptive Innovators are the ultimate in Peer Tested with more than 1,000 of our readers and followers voting.
Health Equity Award
This inaugural award goes to a physician who has made meaningful change to overcome the social determinants of health in gastroenterology. The awardee is seen a model of how identifying and addressing social determinants of health that better patient care.
Our winner is:
As a champion of Black Men in Medicine, Gray leads by example. He chairs the ACG Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, visiting local high schools wherever the annual conference occurs to show young men and women what it means to be a physician and a gastroenterologist. He and Sophie Balzora pushed the hashtag #DiversityInGI so their colleagues could show what that means to them.
He puts his expertise in colorectal cancer into examining how racial and societal disparity affects people in their diagnosis and treatment. He has lifted his voice to teach others how to provide culturally competent care in our specialty.
Gray pushes other young physicians of color into the spotlight to present and lift up the research into discrimination and obstacles facing equity in the ivory tower of academia and medicine.
2020 challenged so many in our field to examine where we are on the pendulum of equity but Gray rose to and surpassed the challenge, becoming a voice for so many in a time when it was most needed.
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