Health Equity

In a Healio video exclusive, John Inadomi, MD, AGAF, chair of the department of medicine at the University of Utah and immediate past president of the AGA, shares key takeaways from Digestive Disease Week 2022.

Black individuals may be at greater risk for developing certain eye diseases that can threaten vision, including glaucoma, which typically strikes this patient population 10 years earlier than other ethnicities.

Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans may be at risk for developing diabetes at lower weights and younger ages than white Americans, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, MACP, FRCP, has been appointed associate director for diversity, equity and inclusion at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center — Jefferson Health.

In this Healio video exclusive, Loren Laine, MD, Digestive Disease Week council chair, discusses programs and resources that health care professionals — whether attending in person or virtually — can expect at this year’s annual meeting.

CHICAGO ⁠— In this video, Ryan D. Mire, MD, FACP, president-elect of the ACP and an internist at Heritage Medical Associates in Nashville, Tennessee, describes key objectives that he will pursue in the coming year.

Measures of social determinants of health are substantially different in U.S. counties with diabetes clinical trial sites compared with counties with no trial sites, according to a research letter published in Diabetes Care.

UC Davis Health launched the Pluralist Program, an initiative designed to increase organ donations among underrepresented groups, at a streamed event in April.

Fewer than half of academic family medicine departments surveyed reported having a diversity officer and only 26% of departments with an officer provided protected time or resources for them, according to data published in Family Medicine.

BOSTON — The keynote speaker at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings discussed racial disparities in the United States and how physicians can change their practices and political behavior to achieve health equity.