Dr. Félix Manuel Chinea is the Head of Health Equity & Inclusion Strategy at Doximity where he applies an equity-centered, inclusion lens to impact people, practices, and products. He is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine with experience in health disparities and health equity research. Through this work, he highlighted the need for disaggregated data within the Latine community to address disparities in prostate cancer outcomes.

Main Topics

• Dr. Chinea shares his journey to digital health and the areas of health equity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). He also shares about how he learned about social justice in college and medical school, where he learned he could combine passion for science and justice. He also opens up about his experience in medical school as Latine student and the obstacles he faced. (6:20)
• Doximity is a HIPPA-compliant platform, connecting healthcare professionals—similar to LinkedIn. The platform also allows for better connectivity between clinicians from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Chinea talks about the platform’s telehealth tool and how his team is using it to address health equity from a telemedicine perspective. (8:19)
• Dr. Chinea and KP explore how health equity fits with DEI in strategies developed at Doximity through building diverse teams and fostering an inclusive culture. (13:27)
• How to get a framework in place and and how creating an equitable process creates an equitable product (15:49)
• Dr. Chinea shares how his current role was developed and how it emphasizes the importance of leadership being invested in furthering DEI. (19:30)
• Dr. Chinea explores clinicians’ perspective of DEI and how content and information is shared through Doximity. (22:00)
• Dr Chinea shares his near-term priorities at Doximity to improve representation from diverse backgrounds, invest in people data and insights, and how he plans to develop goals and incentives to achieve this. (24:41)
• KP and Dr. Chinea explore the importance of evaluating ongoing data and developing trust among staff and employees. (28:42)
• The leadership required to build a more equitable and just healthcare system in the United States (31:06)

Episode Links

• https://www.doximity.com

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https://twitter.com/felixmchinea

Connect with KP:

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https://twitter.com/inonhealth

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