Diversity And Inclusion

A group of health care organizations has awarded $287,500 in grants to 31 entities that pledged to blend diversity, equity and inclusion into their internal medicine education and training programs, according to a press release.

The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery has welcomed more women into leadership roles for 2021-2022, according to a press release.

Pediatric diabetes research is an area that hits close to home for Kristen Nadeau, MD, MS, professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

A study of 65 clinical practice guidelines and recommendations from the American College of Rheumatology and EULAR show a lack of clarity regarding race information, and an “urgent need” for standardized race reporting, researchers wrote.

Charlene Gamaldo, MD, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, received the inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award at SLEEP 2021.

Despite “a high proportion” of women in clinical rheumatology, gender equity was considerably lower in the academic rheumatology setting, according to a member of the EULAR Task Force on Gender Equity in Academic Rheumatology at the EULAR 2021 Congress.

In this episode, I sit down with Sumita Khatri, MD, director of the Asthma Center at Cleveland Clinic, to discuss unconscious bias, advocating for immigrant physicians, overcoming imposter syndrome and balancing work and family life.

In this video exclusive, Felice Caldarella, MD, American Academy of Clinical Endocrinology incoming president, talks with Putting It Into Practice columnist Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, about recent changes at AACE, starting with its name.

Elisa M. Rodriguez, PhD, MS, has been appointed chief diversity and equity officer for faculty at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

With some of the highest racial and gender disparities, the orthopedic specialty must advocate for diversity or lose relevance to future surgeons and patients, the first woman president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons said.