Guest Speaker Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI, Vice President for Health Equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Associate Dean for Health Equity at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, presented the 2020 Homer G. Phillips Lecture at the Eric P. Newman Center on the medical campus on October 25th. Her presentation was titled “Moving from […]
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OUTmentor: Connecting the LGBTQ+ community
We are excited to announce that the Office of Diversity Programs, in partnership with LGBTQ Med and OUTmed, will continue to sponsor OUTmentor, a program for LGBTQ+ identified medical students. OUTmentor connects LGBTQ+ identified students with LGBTQ+ identified faculty and trainees. Through these mentorship groups, OUTmentor aims to provide support, guidance, and resources for professional development, as well […]
At the Table and Dismissed (Links to an external site)
Will Ross, MD explains why and how he’s spent his career trying to alleviate massive racial disparities in health outcomes on an episode of “We live Here” on St. Louis Public Radio.
Letting the community take the lead (Links to an external site)
“If we’re going to make a difference in health outcomes, these are the people who have the answers – the people who are in the community, who have the lived experience, who know where the assets and resources are, who know why they don’t want to go to certain doctors or hospitals,” Wilkins said. “The community sometimes has a good reason to not trust institutions and providers – because they’re not trustworthy.”
Stable home lives improve prospects for preemies (Links to an external site)
Medical challenges at birth less important than stressful home life in predicting future psychiatric health
2019 White Coat Ceremony: Acting on our values (Links to an external site)
First-year medical student Rachel Butler on her class’s intro to the school and the power and positivity of the white coat
How Bullets Go Deep (Links to an external site)
With a focus on violence as a public health epidemic, Dr. Punch will discuss barriers and opportunities in reducing bullet injuries.
STL Pride Fest 2019 (Links to an external site)
PrideFest 2019 will be held June 29th and 30th.
Best wishes, Class of 2019! (Links to an external site)
Gratitude, truth and perseverance: Washington University School of Medicine celebrates the Class of 2019.
A new center at Wash U. led by Adrienne Davis brings together the nation’s top race and ethnicity researchers (Links to an external site)
“The moral arc of the universe only bends toward justice because we lean on it,” says Davis, the founding director of the new Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.