AMA Prioritizing Equity: Recent Episodes
American Medical Association
Prioritizing Equity illuminates how determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities, public health and health equity, with an eye on both short-term and long-term implications.
Prioritizing Equity is produced by The AMA Center for Health Equity and hosted by AMA Chief Health Equity Officer & Senior Vice President, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH. Listeners can earn CME while gaining valuable lessons in racial justice and health equity from leading voices in medicine and health care.
This episode of the Prioritizing Equity series will delve into the critical issue of ageism in medicine, examining how age-related biases affect physicians and the quality of care they provide. We'll explore why hospitals and regulatory policies should shift from focusing on a physician's age to evaluate their care quality data and performance metrics. Guests will discuss the impacts of ageism, personal experiences, and the policy changes needed to ensure that all physicians, regardless of age, can continue to contribute meaningfully and that senior patients receive equitable care.
Panelists
- Jenny L. Boyer, MD, PhD, JD, Chair-Elect, Senior Physicians Section Governing Council, American Medical Association
- Ramona Rhodes, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Hospice, and Palliative Care, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Ved Gossain, MD, Shwartz Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Michigan State University
Moderator
- William Jordan, MD, MPH, Senior Director of Equity Policy and Transformation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
In this episode of our Prioritizing Equity series, we are joined by physicians and experts who will discuss the Black maternal health crisis faced by mothers and their children. Panelists will examine why Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women in addition to the various factors that contribute to these inequities. In addition, panelists will discuss how social determinants of health prevent many racially and ethnically marginalized and minoritized people from having equitable opportunities for physical, mental, and emotional health. Lastly, panelists will explore the solutions needed to transform the maternal health care system.
Panelists
- Denise Pines - Co-Founder and CEO of Women in the Room Productions and President of Osteopathic Medical Board of California
- Ebony Marcelle, DNP, CNM, FACNM, Director of Midwifery at Community of Hope
- Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH, CEO of MLK Community Healthcare
This episode will inform physicians and medical trainees about the critical intersection of incarceration, voter rights, and health outcomes. It will explore how disenfranchisement during and after incarceration affects the health and well- being of impacted individuals and communities. Through expert insights, the episode will delve into the broader implications for medicine and public health, highlighting the role physicians can play in advocating for voter protections and deepening patient support.
Panelists
- Charles D. Lee, MD, JD, MBA, American College of Correctional Physicians
- Ronald F. Day, PhD, MPA Senior Vice President, The Fortune Society
In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, we will discuss the AMA’s “Embedding Equity in Crisis Preparedness and Response in Health Systems Guide,” which was released earlier this year. This guide was created in partnership with national health equity and racial justice leaders, organizations and physicians. Partners came together during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop the guide to support health care organizations in ensuring equity and racial justice lens guides those preparing and responding to crises.
Panelists
- Mitch Stripling, MPA, Director, NYC Pandemic response Institute Columbia University. @mitchstripling
- Christa-Marie Singleton, MD, MPH, FACPM, Chief Medical Officer, Healthcare and Insurance, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Moderator
- Fernando De Maio, PhD, Health Equity Data and Research, American Medical Association Center for Health Equity
In this episode of our Prioritizing Equity series(Released on July 22nd, 2024), we are joined by international medical graduate (IMG) physicians who will discuss their experience in medicine. Panelists will reflect on their journey from medical school outside of the United States to practicing in the U.S. Physicians will also discuss the barriers IMGs experience and the policies that they are currently advocating for to make medicine more equitable for healthcare workers and patients.
Panelist
- Natalia Solenkova, MD, PHD, MLS intensivist physician and Chair of the International Medical Graduate Section (IMGS) Governing Council
- Luis Alberto Isea Mercado, MD, Assistant Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency at AdvenHealth Central Orlando and delegate of the International Medical Graduate Section (IMG) Governing Council
Moderator
- William Jordan, MD, MPH, Senior Director of Health Equity Policy and Transformation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
In this week’s episode of our Prioritizing Equity series, we are joined by physicians and scholarly leaders who are advocating for equitable climate action to remedy the disproportionate burden of health harms climate crisis puts on historically marginalized communities. Speakers will examine climate justice policy and the role of the medical community and experts in leading society toward a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels (or towards renewable energy). In addition, panelists will discuss what actions physicians and medical professions can take to address climate change harms.
Panelists
- Cheryl Holder, MD Associate Professor and Faculty Director of Panther Communities at the Florida International University
- Jerry P. Abraham, MD MPH CMQ, Director & Chief Vaccinologist, CDU-KEDREN Mobile Street Medicine; President, Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA
- Aru Shiney-Ajay, Executive Director of Sunrise Movement
- Kyle Hill, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
In this episode of the Prioritizing Equity series (Released on May 21st, 2024), panelists will share the importance of teaching, implementing and adapting culturally responsive communication models for addressing health inequities. Physicians will reflect on and share examples from their personal and professional experiences of designing curriculum, developing screening practices, and investigating barriers and facilitators of culturally responsive communication utilizing health justice frameworks
Moderator
- William Jordan, MD, MPH, Senior Director of Health Equity Policy and Transformation, American Medical Association Center for Health Equity
Panelists
- Lalit Narayan, MD, MBBS, MA, Primary Care Internist, GW Medical Faculty Associates, Assistant Professor of Medicine, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Leon McCrea, II MD, MPH, FAAFP, Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Drexel University College of Medicine
Chavon Onumah, MD, MPH, MEd, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Maranda C. Ward, EdD, MPH, PI, Two in One Model and Assistant Professor and Director of Equity, Department of Clinical Research and Leadership
This week's episode of Prioritizing Equity series brings together the physicians featured in "Our Legacy in Practice: A Physician's Story” videos. Today, panelists will discuss the importance of identity concordance for aspiring physicians and take a closer look at some of the themes highlighted in the videos. Each physician will take a deeper dive into their medical school experience and reflect on an experience in medicine that has impacted their career thus far.
Panelists
- Ciciley Littlewolf, MD
- Javier Guevara, MD, FAAFP
- Nicole Riddle, MD, MSHI, FCAP, FASCP
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
This week's episode of Prioritizing Equity will discuss how the recent affirmative action ruling undermines policy dedicated to increasing physician diversity, which is vital to the healthcare ecosystem and will have negative implications towards increasing medical career opportunities for marginalized and minoritized people as well as for patients and communities.
Panelists
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Jessica Faiz, MD, MSHPM, Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA, Core Investigator with the VA Center for the Study of Healthcare, Innovation, Implementation, and Policy @im_jesssayinn
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Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor for Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, @merlinc2
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David Henderson, MD, VP Equity, Diversity and Belonging in Medical Education American Medical Association
Moderator
- Fernando De Maio, PhD, Vice President of Health Equity Data and Research, American Medical Association, Center for Health Equity and Professor of Sociology, DePaul University - Twitter: @fernandodemaio
This week's edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy — a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study and model.
Panelists
- Ayesha Jaco, Executive Director, West Side United – Twitter: @WSUnitedChi
- Adam Alonso, Chief Executive Officer of BUILD Chicago
- David Ansell, MD, MPH, SVP, Community Health Equity Rush University Medical Center
Moderator
- Diana Derige, DrPH, Vice President, Health Equity Strategy, American Medical Association, Center for Health Equity - Twitter: @double_DRPH
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In this edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing houselessness and discuss the importance of equitable, holistic, cost effective, evidence-based discharge planning.
Panelists
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Margot Kushel, MD, Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center – Twitter: @MKushel
- Stephen Brown, MSW, LCSW, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System
- Denise De Las Nueces, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
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Yinan Lan, MD, Homeless Health Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals
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Dez Martinez, Founder of We Are Not Invisible and member of the BHHI Lived Expertise Advisory Board: @weinvisible
Moderator
- Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH, Director of Social Justice Education and Implementation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @EClevelandMD
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Firearm violence is a public health crisis. In this week's Prioritizing Equity panel, we explore the work of physicians in health systems and beyond in the realms of public health, public safety, and firearm violence prevention.
Panel:
- Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, Incoming Dean of Yale School of Public Health – Twitter: @meganranney
- Eric Reinhart, MD, PGY2 psychiatry resident at Northwestern University – Twitter: @_Eric_Reinhart
- Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine – Twitter: @JosephSakran
- Dr. Brian Williams, MD, Trauma & Acute Care Surgeon in Dallas, TX – Twitter: @BHWilliamsMD
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank
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In this edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, join medical student organizers and policy advocates as they discuss increasing access to care in native communities and improving care within the Indian Health Services through health policy.
Panel:
- Tamee Livermont [Tam/Me - Liv/er/Mont], MPH, Oglala Lakota Medical Student, UMN Medical School
- Alec Calac [Al/Ek- Cal/Ek], MD/PHD Candidate, UC San Diego, Association of Native American Medical Students
- Ashton Glover-Gatewood [Ash/ton-Glow/Ver-Gatewood], MPH, OMS-3, Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at Cherokee Nation
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank
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In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President at the AMA Center for Health Equity speaks with participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety program on their strategies to start operationalizing equity into their quality and safety operations.
Panel:
- Aderonke Akingbola, MD, MMM, AGAF, CPE Vice President, Medical Affairs, Ochsner Health
- Judy C. Washington, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Atlantic Medical Group
Moderator: Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President, Equitable Health Systems, AMA Center for Health Equity
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Introduction
- Introduction of the panelists
- Equity at the intersection of health care quality and safety
- Addressing inequities through quality and safety reporting
- Peer Network framework
- Harm event reporting
- Creating psychological safe spaces
- Building teams to improve safety and equity
- The challenges of transforming the health care system
- Harm event case studies
- Successful outcomes from this work
- Lessons for health systems from the Peer Network
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Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts.
Panel:
- Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law
- Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH—President and CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
- Krishna Upadhya, MD, MPH—Vice President, Quality Care and Health Equity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Introduction
- Introduction of the panelists
- Policing and criminalization of reproductive health care
- Abortion access and inequities in health care
- The end of Roe v Wade and a new legal frontier for abortion rights
- The impact of the overturning of Roe and access to abortions
- Substandard medical care being mandated by states
- How the legal system can provide rights & access to health services
- Abortion, reproductive justice, & human rights
- Finding hope in health care justice work
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Explore the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care and how physicians can push past it to advance health equity. Daniel Markovits, JD, Melody S. Goodman, PhD, Tomás Diaz, MD and moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD discuss in this Prioritizing Equity panel.
Panel:
- Daniel Markovits, JD—Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School
- Melody S. Goodman, PhD—Associate Dean for Research/Associate Professor of Biostatistics, New York University School of Global Public Health
- Tomás Diaz, MD—Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Educator at Columbia University Medical Center
Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Resources:
- The Meritocracy Trap (book): https://www.themeritocracytrap.com/
- Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf
- Education from AMA Center for Health Equity: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity
- The AMA’s Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2021-05/ama-equity-strategic-plan.pdf
Originally aired: March 14th, 2021
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This week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series focuses on the power of narratives and language in health care. It explores how dominant narratives perpetuate harm, and offers examples of how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives.
Read the guide: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf
Panel:
- Philip M. Alberti, PhD—Founding Director, AAMC Center for Health Justice and Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy at Association of American Medical Colleges
- David A. Ansell, MD, MPH—Senior Vice President and Associate Provost, Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center
- Renee Canady, PhD, MPA—Chief Executive Officer of MI Public Health Institute
- Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP—Senior Director, Equity and Social Accountability, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); Assistant Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services
Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: February 14th, 2022
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The January 24, 2022 edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series focuses on redistributive justice and its impact on the health of patients and communities that have been socially and economically marginalized and minoritized.
Panel:
- Ivelyse Andino—Founder and CEO of Radical Health
- William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., PhD—Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University
- Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD—Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: January 24, 2022
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In this October 4, 2021, Prioritizing Equity discussion, AMA Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and leaders across a continuum of disciplines discuss critical race theory and its applications to the field of health equity.
Panel:
- Dennis C. Chin—Vice president of Narrative, Arts, and Culture, Race Forward
- Malika Sharma, MD, MEd—Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital; assistant professor, University of Toronto
- Bram Wispelwey, MD, MS, MPH—Senior fellow at Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, associate physician, Division of Global Health Equity Brigham & Women's Hospital
- Rahel Zewude, MD—Black Physicians of British Columbia, Black Physicians of Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: October 4th, 2021
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In this July 12, 2021 Prioritizing Equity discussion AMA Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, is joined by a panel of experts to examine the ways that white physicians can get actively involved in the fight for racial justice. Learn how doctors can become accomplices to advance equity.
Panel:
- David A. Ansell, MD, MPH—Senior vice president and associate provost in community health equity at Rush University Medical Center
- Esther K. Choo, MD, MPH—Professor at the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine in the department of emergency medicine at Oregon Health and Science University
- Bay Love, MBA, MPP—Partner at the Groundwater Institute and organizer at the Racial Equity Institute
- Kimberly D. Manning, MD, FACP, FAAP—Professor of medicine and associate vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion at the department of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: July 12th, 2021
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This Pride Month, Kameryn Lee, MD, joins Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH for a special Prioritizing Equity discussion on what physicians can do to best support and center the voices of LGBTQ patients while continuing to advance health equity.
Originally aired: June 14th, 2021
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How can equity be further integrated into medical education? In this May 31, 2021 edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in medical education discuss the importance of embedding equity in health care education and envision new paths towards justice.
Panel:
- Candice Chen, MD, MPH—Associate professor, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity at the George Washington University
- Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH—Assistant professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: May 31st, 2021
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As our AMA Equity Plan reveals, achieving health equity and embedding racial justice requires action and accountability. In this May 17, 2021, Prioritizing Equity panel, leaders in health and higher education discuss why acknowledging historical harms is critical to bringing lasting change to health care.
Panel:
- Robert E. Fullilove, EdD—Associate dean, Community and Minority Affairs and professor, Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Clarence C. Gravlee, PhD—Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Learn more about the details of the AMA Equity Plan.
Originally aired: May 17th, 2021
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How can we work to establish a more equitable future? In this May 3, 2021, Prioritizing Equity panel, health leaders discuss why advancing health equity must require sharing power through effective alliances with those who have experienced marginalization and injustice across generations.
Panel:
- jewel bush—Chief of external affairs, Girl Trek
- Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA—Co-founder and executive director, Birth Detroit; co-founder and co-director, Birth Center Equity
Guest moderator: Diana Derige, DrPH—Director, health equity strategy & development, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: May 3rd, 2021
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COVID-19 has highlighted the persistent health inequities that exist in the U.S. In this April 19, 2021, edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, health leaders use the pandemic as a lens to examine how quality and safety can drive equitable health care and outcomes moving forward.
Panel:
- Louis H. Hart, MD—Director of equity, quality & safety, Office of Quality & Safety at NYC Health + Hospitals
- Kedar Mate, MD—President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Guest Moderator: Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS—Vice president of equitable health systems and innovation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association; medical director for quality safety and equity, Brigham Health
Originally aired: April 19th, 2021
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COVID-19 has changed the nature of work for many Americans. The April 5, 2021 installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series explores why employers must be as equally invested as the government and health care community in ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for their workforce.
Panel:
- Marina Del Rios, MD, MS—Associate professor of clinical emergency medicine, director of social emergency medicine and emergency ultrasound research director at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago
- Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP—Chief medical officer, Aetna; senior vice president, CVS Health
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: April 1st, 2021
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AMA's Prioritizing Equity series brings together revered voices to discuss how a year of the pandemic has impacted minoritized and marginalized physicians, in this March 18, 2021 webinar. In a conversation moderated by AMA Group Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, experts illuminate the effect COVID-19 has had on communities that historically and contemporarily experienced inequities.
Panel:
- Leon McDougle, MD, MPH—121st President, National Medical Association; Professor of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; Chief Diversity Officer, The OSU Wexner Medical Center
- Mary Owen, MD—Director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health, University of Minnesota Medical School; President of the Association of American Indian Physicians
- Elena Rios, MD, MSPH—President and CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
- Hector Vargas, JD—Executive director of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality
- Winston F. Wong, MD, MS, FAAFP—Chairman, National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired March 18, 2021.
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In this February 25, 2021, edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in health justice discuss how trauma-informed approaches impact advancing equity among minoritized and marginalized communities during COVID-19.
Panel:
- Alec Calac—Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians; global public health MD/PhD student at UC San Diego School of Medicine; national policy director for the Association of Native American Medical Students
- L. Toni Lewis, MD—President and founder, Liberation Health Strategies; co-founder, Health Equity Cypher
- Nadia Richardson, PhD—DEI trainer; mental health advocate; professor of UAB School of Health Professions, University of Alabama
Guest moderator: Mia Keeys, MA, DrPH(c)—Director, health equity policy & advocacy, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: February 25th, 2021
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In this February 11, 2021, installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, health justice leaders and advocates as discuss the ways in which COVID-19 uniquely impacts people with disabilities. Tune in as they share immediate and long-term improvement strategies for ensuring equity.
Panel:
- Irma Gomez— Assistant director of the learning commons at Roosevelt University and advocate for students with disabilities
- Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD—Medical anthropologist, senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
- Maurice G. Sholas, MD, PhD— Principal for Sholas Medical Consulting
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired February 11, 2021.
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In our first Prioritizing Equity panel of 2021, join leaders in health justice as they discuss strategies for equity in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Panel:
- Torian Easterling, MD, MPH—First deputy commissioner and chief equity officer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Kaakpema "KP" Yelpaala, MPH—Chief executive officer & founder, access.mobile International, Inc.
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired January 28, 2021.
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In the December 10, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in health justice will discuss misinformation, trustworthiness, and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals.
Panel:
- Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc: UNC at Chapel Hill Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine at the School of Medicine.
- Kim Gallon, PhD: Associate Professor of History at Purdue University and founder and executive director of COVID Black.
- Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN: Hidatsa/Dakhóta, Director of the First Nations House of Learning and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at University of British Columbia.
- Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS: Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) & Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine, Public Health, and Management at Yale School of Medicine.
- Lauren Smith, MD, MPH: Chief Health Equity and Strategy Officer for the CDC Foundation.
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Group Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: December 10th, 2020
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In the November 19, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in public health and academia discuss the power of data in understanding health inequities and the systemic issues that cause them to persist. Topics will include COVID-19, the social and political context surrounding data and data analysis, as well as the challenges of quantifying health inequities and the structural and social determinants of health.
Panel:
- Maureen Benjamins, PhD, senior research fellow at the Sinai Urban Health Institute
- Nancy Krieger, PhD, professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Alyasah Ali Sewell, PhD, associate professor of sociology at Emory University and founder and director of The Race and Policing Project
Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD, director, research and data use, AMA Center for Health Equity
Originally aired: November 19th, 2020
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In the November 12, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, moderates a post-election conversation focusing on centering equity in health policy 2020 and beyond, plus what needs to be critical priorities when it comes to advancing advance racial and health justice.
Panel:
- Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, president and CEO of Health Begins
- Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP, co-founder of Vote Health 2020
- B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD, director of Health Equity Policy and Equity at University of Virginia School of Medicine
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer and vice president
Originally aired: November 12th, 2020
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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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This Hispanic Heritage Month, public health leaders on the Oct. 15, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel discuss COVID-19 and the Latinx community. Topics include structural racism, the invisibility of the Latinx community in mainstream topics and the impact this has on health care access and quality.
Panel:
- Rita Carreón, deputy vice president of health, UnidosUS
- Ray Mendez, MD, MA, founding physician, MiMedico
- Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD, distinguished university professor and interim chair, Department of Women's Studies, director, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, and adjunct professor, family medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine
Guest moderator: Diana Lemos, PhD, MPH, program manager, AMA Center for Health Equity
COVID-19 and Latinx Community Report: http://cloud.e.ama-assn.org/20-1643-COVIDLatinx
Originally aired: October 15th, 2020
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On October 1, 2020, the AMA’s Prioritizing Equity series joined Chicago's public health leaders as they shared lessons learned, discussed the importance of equity and illuminated the challenges health departments have faced in response to the pandemic.
Panel:
- Allison Arwady, MD, MPH—Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health
- Candace Moore, JD—Chief equity officer for the City of Chicago
- Eve Shapiro, MPH—Senior director of data & evaluation at West Side United
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: October 1, 2020
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In the September 17, 2020 installment of the AMA’s Prioritizing Equity series, physician leaders discuss the ways in which COVID-19 may uniquely impact the traditional voting process, precautions for in-person voting and the importance of the voting process for minoritized and marginalized communities.
Panel:
- Nathan T. Chomilo, MD, FAAP—Medical director for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid & MinnesotaCare. Currently the interim policy & advocacy workgroup chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion.
- Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP—California Health Care Foundation, leadership fellow.
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association.
Originally aired September 17, 2020.
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In the Sept. 3, 2020, webinar of the AMA’s Prioritizing Equity series, public health officials from New York City explore how they have worked to center equity during the COVID-19 response. The New York City Department of Health team shares how partnerships and community collaboration has been key in bringing the city to a suppression phase during the pandemic.
Panel:
- Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH—Deputy commissioner, disease control at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Torian Easterling, MD, MPH—Deputy commissioner for health equity and community wellness at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Neil M. Vora, MD—Director of tracing at NYC Health Department/Health + Hospital Corporation
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: September 3rd, 2020
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Explore the relationship between political determinants of health and health equity in this August 20, 2020, installment of the AMA’s Prioritizing Equity YouTube series. Join us as leaders in health care and politics discuss both the immediate and long-term impact political determinants of health have on the nation as it grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Panel:
- Daniel E. Dawes, JD—Professor of health policy, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and author of the book “The Political Determinants of Health.”
- Jesus “Chuy” Garcia—Congressman Garcia represents the 4th Congressional District of Illinois. He currently serves as a member of the influential Financial Services Committee, Natural Resources Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC).
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association.
Originally aired: August 20th, 2020
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In this August 6, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, join the AMA's Immediate-past President Patrice Harris, MD, Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, and health leader Luz M. Garcini, PhD, MPH, as they illuminate COVID-19's immediate and long-term effects on the mental health of minoritized and marginalized communities.
Panel:
- Luz M. Garcini, PhD, MPH—Assistant professor at the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, and a faculty scholar at the Mexico Center Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
- Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA—Immediate-past president, American Medical Association
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, American Medical Association
Originally aired: August 6th, 2020
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Explore the ways COVID-19 may uniquely impact Asian American and Pacific Islander communities during the latest installment of our YouTube health equity series. Hear from East Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian health care leaders on topics such as the pandemic’s impact on Asian communities, data trends, and health equity concerns.
Panel:
- Ignatius Bau, JD—Policy consultant for the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians
- Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH—Internist, ABC News contributor, former health equity leader and chief medical officer of the American Hospital Association
- Ryan Huerto, MD, MPH, MA—Family medicine physician and health service researcher
- Julie Morita, MD—Executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Ray Samoa, MD—Assistant professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California
- Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP—California Health Care Foundation, leadership fellow
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: July 16th, 2020
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In this July 2, 2020, installment of our Prioritizing Equity YouTube series, join physicians and health equity leaders as they illuminate the ways in which physicians are moving upstream to reimagine, redesign and reconstruct what a more equitable health care system can look like.
Panel:
- Sandra Hernández, MD—President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation
- Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH—President & CEO, Health Begins
- Lauren R. Powell, MPA, PhD—VP, head of healthcare industry, TIME'S UP
- David Zuckerman, MPP—Director of Healthcare Anchor Network, The Democracy Collaborative
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: July 2nd, 2020
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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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In the June 11, 2020, installment of our YouTube Prioritizing Equity series, join practicing physicians and leaders in health care as they share how they are addressing root causes of inequity during COVID-19 and beyond—by centering equity in their workspaces and dismantling racist policies and practices.
Panel:
- David A. Ansell, MD, MPH–Associate provost for community affairs, Rush University; the Michael E. Kelly, MD, presidential professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College; senior vice president for community health equity, Rush University Medical Center
- Kamini Doobay, MD, MS–Emergency medicine resident physician at NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital; organizer/founder, NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System
- Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH–Assistant professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine; works clinically in the Emergency Department at Boston Medical Center
- Michael Mensah, MD, MPH–Chief resident at UCLA Health and APA resident fellow member trustee
- LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, MD candidate–Second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, serving as the first documented black women student council president at Harvard Medical School
- Brian Williams, MD–Associate professor of trauma and acute care surgery at the University of Chicago
Moderator: AMA Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Originally aired: June 11th, 2020
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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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In the May 28, 2020, Prioritizing Equity webinar, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, chief health equity officer at the AMA, speaks with a panel of health equity advocates and trailblazers on their work to address the root causes of health inequity and the social determinants of health.
Panel:
- Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH—Assistant scientist, Jay Weiss Institute for Health Equity, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center; managing director, Health Equity Research Solutions, LLC
- Joia Crear-Perry, MD—President, National Birth Equity Collaborative
- Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD—2019-2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD—Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society, Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Professor of Psychiatry
- Whitney Pirtle, PhD—Assistant professor of sociology associated faculty critical race and ethnic studies University of California Merced
- Brian Smedley, PhD—Chief of psychology in the Public Interest Directorate, American Psychological Association
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Originally aired: May 28th, 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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On the May 14, 2020, Prioritizing Equity webinar, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer, and guests discuss the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Latinx physicians and the Latinx community, highlighting how the public health crisis has deepened preexisting inequities. Topics on this episode include the pandemic’s impact on immigrant communities, COVID-19 testing, trends and equity concerns in health care and beyond.
Panel:
- Ricardo Correa, MD, EsD, FACP, FAPCR, CMQ , assistant professor of medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine and the Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown
- Joaquín Estrada, MD, FASCRS, surgical director, Digestive Health Institute at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical, and the vice president of the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement
- Luis Seija, MD, resident physician, Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York
- Erika Flores Uribe, MD, MPH, director of language access and inclusion, Department of Health Services, Los Angeles County, assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine
Moderator: AMA Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Originally aired May 14, 2020
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In the May 7, 2020 Prioritizing Equity webinar, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, chief health equity officer at the AMA, speaks with a panel of medical students, some of the nation’s youngest medical leaders, as they share their thoughts on the immediate and long-term health equity considerations and impact this pandemic poses.
Panel:
- Alec Calac, Association of Native American Medical Students UC San Diego chapter resident (UC San Diego School of Medicine)
- Richard Gómez, Medical Organization for Latino Advancement medical student committee member (Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine)
- Alex Lindqwister, Association of American Medical Colleges Organization of Student Representatives national chair (Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine)
- Osose Oboh, MPH, Student National Medical Association president (Michigan State University College of Human Medicine)
- Sarah Mae Smith, American Medical Association Board of Trustees (UC Irvine School of Medicine)
- Yingfei Wu, Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association national president (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Moderator: AMA Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Originally aired: May 7th, 2020
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Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the April 23, 2020, Prioritizing Equity webinar, leaders from the nation’s public health institutions illuminate the ways in which COVID-19 may uniquely impact public health, the health of minoritized and marginalized public health leaders, communities of color, and patients that are historically and contemporarily experience inequities. The discussion will cover the immediate and long-term considerations and impact of the pandemic. Panel: * Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Exec. Dir., American Public Health Association * Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO, National Association of County and City Health Officials * J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, Exec. VP & COO, Trust for America’s Health
Moderator: AMA Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH Originally aired: April 23rd, 2020
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On April 2, 2020, the AMA hosted a panel as part of its Prioritizing Equity webinar series. Health experts and leaders in minority communities across the nation joined to discuss their experiences with COVID-19.
Panel:
- Oliver Brooks, MD, president of the National Medical Association (NMA)
- Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, president, AMA
- Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, president and CEO of the National Hispanic Medical Association
- Brian Thompson, MD, Association of American Indian Physicians
- Siobhan Wescott, MD, MPH, Association of American Indian Physicians
- Winston F. Wong, MD, MS, chairman of the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, chief health equity officer, AMA
Originally aired: April 2nd, 2020
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