AMA Prioritizing Equity

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

• 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 

•  Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor for Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, @merlinc2  

• 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

• 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 

• Yinan Lan, MD, Homeless Health Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals 

•  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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Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.

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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