What Physician Leaders and Academic Medical Centers Can Do to Combat Racism and Become Anti-Racist Institutions

This panel of experts discuss what physician leaders and academic medical centers can do to combat racism and become anti-racist institutions.

• Moderator: Mollie Williams, DrPH, MPH
• Panelists: Beatrice Antoine, MSW Candidate, Nancy Oriol, MD

Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center, Aspiring for Racial Justice and Liberation

This hospital affiliated community health center aspires to be a racial justice and liberation organization. Panelists will review how the health center came to identify as such and what this means in practice.

• Moderator: Juan Jaime de Zengotita, MD
• Panelists: Denyse Butler-Mackay LICSW, Thomas Keifer, MPH, Abigail Ortiz

The Racist Patient 

In this session, Dr. Sachin H. Jain discusses his paper “The Racist Patient” in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

• Moderators: J. Kevin Tucker, MD; Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP, MBA
• Panelist: Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA

Threat to a Nation: A Conversation About Race and Combatting Structural Racism on the Street

The Family Van is a mobile clinic operated by Community Health Workers and was co-created with neighborhood leaders almost 30 years ago. Learn how one physician created a sustainable program to improve the health of Boston's most underserved communities. This webinar provides an overview of the systemic effects of racism on health and health disparities. It provides a framework for naming and addressing how racism operates within the health care system's structures and how we at the Family Van play a significant role in our community, breaking racial barriers.

• Moderator: Mollie Williams, DrPH, MPH
• Panelists: Beatrice Antoine, MSW Candidate, Nancy Oriol, MD

The Intersection of a Career in Health Care and Social Justice Activism: Lessons Learned from Rev. Traci Blackmon

Reverend Traci Blackmon shares her lessons learned as a nurse, minister and social justice advocate. 

• Moderator: J. Kevin Tucker, MD, Ellen Long-Middleton, PhD, APRN
• Panelist: Rev. Traci Blackmon

When White America Gets Pneumonia: COVID-19 and Structural Racism

An old saying goes – “when white America gets a cold; Black people get pneumonia.” This session will explore how structural racism explains the pattern of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. 

• Moderator: Cheryl R. Clark, MD, ScD
• Panelist: Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH, FACP

COVID Vaccine Equity: The Impact of Race, Racism and Mistrust in the Health Care System on Vaccine Hesitancy

The panelists in this session will explore the why vaccine hesitancy exists in Latinx, Black and other minority groups. They will then discuss strategies to address hesitancy and increase vaccination rates among the most vulnerable populations. 

• Moderator: Wanda McClain
• Panelists: Paulette Chandler, MD, MPH, Michael A. Curry, Esq, Rev. Liz Walker

Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine: A Conversation Between Faculty Leaders

In this session, our expert panelists explore the impact of unconscious bias and microaggressions have on health care.

• Moderator: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH
• Panelist: Daniele D. Ölveczky, MD

International Medical Graduates Providing Care to Underserved and Eliminating Health Disparities

International medical graduates have an import role in providing care to the underserved and eliminating health disparities. Our knowledgeable panel discusses how these providers deliver care in underserved areas and in safety net hospitals.

• Moderator: J. Kevin Tucker, MD
• Panelists: Anupam Agarwal, MD, Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBS, William Pinsky, MD

The Use of Race in Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease

Our skilled panelists discuss the use of race as a factor in assessing and managing kidney disease. Topics include the development of estimating equations, how false perceptions affect clinical care and areas that can be addressed for improvement.

• Moderator: J. Kevin Tucker, MD
• Panelist: Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH

Heart Disease in African-Americans: Strategies to Reduce the Rate of Premature Death

Join our panelists as they discuss heart disease in African Americans and strategies to reduce the rate of premature death.

• Moderator: J. Kevin Tucker, MD
• Panelists: Reverend Benjamin D. Perkins, MA, MDiv, Lenny Lopez MD, MPH, MDiv, FAHA

The Impact of Race, Racism, Biology, and Social Determinants of Health on Kidney Disease Disparities

This session will focus on the disparate impact of kidney disease on African Americans and the factors that underlie that disparity including genetics, environment, structural racism and socioeconomic status, among other factors. 

• Moderator: J. Kevin Tucker, MD
• Panelists: Denyse Thornley-Brown, MD; Opeyimi Olabisi, MD

Health Care Disparities in Diabetes 

This session covers health disparities topics and how they relate to Diabetes.

• Moderator: Enrique Caballero, MD
• Panelists: Gary Puckrein, PhD, Arshiya Baig, MD, MPH

Impact of Race and Trauma on Pediatric Mental Health

This discussion focuses on the impact of race and trauma has on pediatric mental health and how implicit bias affects pediatric mental health in emergency departments.

• Panelists: Vonzella Bryant, MD FACEP, Christine Crawford, MD, MPH

Maternal Justice Across the Atlantic: Race, Pregnancy and Birth Equity in the United States and Great Britain

“Maternal Justice” is a model of culturally sensitive pregnancy care which aims to maximize maternal health and wellbeing by dismantling inequities at the individual, community and health system levels. This panel of birthing advocates and practitioners from the United States and United Kingdom discuss disparate outcomes in maternal health in the context of maternal justice.

• Moderator: Adeline Boatin, MD, MPH
• Panelists: Rose L. Molina, MD, MPH, Dr. Christine Ekechi, MBChB, FRCOG, MRH, Clothilde Rebecca Abe, Pandora Hartman DNP, CNM, RN, FACNM