2020 Homer G. Phillips Lecture

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 […]

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.”