Diversity And Inclusion

Sara Ranjbar, PhD, winner of the Mayo Clinic’s 2021 Edward C. Kendall Alumni Award for Meritorious Research, has always known she wanted a job that would enable her to help patients and be of service to others.

In this video, Nikki Duong, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University, shares his experience being “out” in the medical field and what he feels is necessary to create a more inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ trainees.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, Eric W. Carson, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, shared his experiences as a Black orthopedic surgeon and the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion within orthopedics.

The NFL Physicians Society and the Professional Football Athletic Trainer Society have launched a joint program to increase and diversify the pipeline of students interested in sports medicine careers, according to a press release.

Women remain significantly underrepresented in academic internal medicine leadership positions in the United States, according to findings published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

FORT WORTH, Texas— In this video from the American Nephrology Nurses Association Annual Symposium, incoming president Angela Kurosaka, DNP, RN, CNN, CCM, NEA-BC, talks about important goals for the organization.

ASCO and the Association of Community Cancer Centers have jointly developed recommendations for improving equity, diversity and inclusion in cancer clinical trials.

Achieving diversity in our ranks of physicians is not just about fairness to all people. It’s also a practical matter.

Disparities in eye care have been documented to exist in nearly all subspecialties of ophthalmology.

Underrepresented populations are not a new phenomenon in ophthalmology, specifically in the retina subspecialty.