AMA Prioritizing Equity

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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

The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

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

The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

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

The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

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

The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct