Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, for the seventh consecutive year.
The HEED award recognizes institutions that show an outstanding commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion across campus programs and constituencies. Weill Cornell Medicine will be featured in the November/December 2024 issue of the magazine.
“Diversity is not just something we do to meet a metric or pursue only when it is popular; it’s a long-term, abiding commitment to make sure that...
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host its 6th Annual Diversity Week event that will take place during week of April 7th to April 11th, 2025. An array of events will take place throughout the week featuring two Keynote Lectures. Diversity Grand Round talks from experts in their fields, health disparity and mentoring in medicine symposiums, paneled events centered around work-life balance, women in science, and LGBT issues in medicine, among others will be presented during the week long event. In addition, winners of the Ritu Banga Healthcare Disparities...
On Aug. 13, the 106 first-year medical students in Weill Cornell Medical College's Class of 2028 received their short white coats during the annual White Coat Ceremony, officially marking the beginning of their medical education.
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Despite decades of halting progress, women’s cardiovascular disease diagnosis, treatment and outcomes continue to lag behind men’s, said Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz, the Irwin and Sheila Allen Chair in Women’s Heart Research in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, in her keynote address on April 16 for Weill Cornell Medicine’s sixth annual Diversity Week.
“Females with no obstructive coronary arteries account for about a third of ischemic heart disease acute coronary syndromes. But when your arteries look like a guy, you get treated, and...
To imagine a society without racial disparities in health care, we must consider the real reasons inequities exist, said Dr. Thomas LaVeist, Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, in his keynote address on April 15 for Weill Cornell Medicine’s sixth annual Diversity Week.
Dr. LaVeist delivered the Elizabeth A. Wilson-Anstey, EdD Lecture, “My Journey to Discover Why African Americans Live Sicker and Die Younger,” as part of the annual celebration of Weill Cornell Medicine’s commitment to greater...
Dr. Andrea Card, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has always embraced diversity, equity and inclusion, starting in the 1990s when she was a medical student—long before it became a priority across the country. This year, Dr. Card received the Bruce Laine Ballard Award at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Celebration of Diversity, part of the institution’s sixth annual Diversity Week, held April 15 in Griffis Faculty Club.
She has used her skills as an internist, public health expert and mentor to reach communities, as she puts it, “regardless...
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host its 6th Annual Diversity Week event that will take place during week of April 15th to April 19th, 2024. An array of events will take place throughout the week featuring two Keynote Lectures presented by Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Dean, Weatherhead Chair, & Professor, Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, Irwin and Sheila Allen Chair in Women’s Heart Research and Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Director of the Barbra Streisand...
When Dr. Linnie Golightly was a medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine in the early 1980s, the world was a very different place. Most professors were male, and students were taught by immersion. Students had to reconcile on their own how what they were learning in lectures would synch with caring for patients. Many of the crucial physician skills, such as doctor-patient interaction, communication, ethics and decision-making, weren’t implicitly taught. One of Dr. Golightly’s then-medical preceptors, however, broke that mold: Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson (M.D. ’77), an alumna of the...
For the sixth consecutive year, Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, which recognizes the institution’s exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The largest and oldest diversity-centered publication in higher education, INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine will highlight the award winners in its November/December 2023 issue. The HEED Award is presented annually to U.S. health professional schools and other medical organizations that exemplify outstanding leadership...
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