Welcome to Weill Cornell Medicine’s inaugural Diversity Week! We are excited to engage all members of our diverse community in the week’s events. A variety of lectures and activities will showcase cutting-edge scholarship and initiatives focused on enhancing diversity and reducing healthcare disparities both on campus and nationwide.
Weill Cornell Medicine is proud to be a community made up of diverse individuals. We believe that diversity in all its forms—regardless of whether or not one identifies personally as a member of a particular group—is essential to achieving excellence in patient care, research, and education. Diversity and gender equity, both in our student body and in the workforce, will enable us to develop new and better solutions to the complex problems we face in medicine and healthcare.
Weill Cornell Medicine is committed to advancing diversity and inclusion within academic medicine, during Diversity Week and throughout the year. Thank you for joining us this week as we celebrate the rich and varied backgrounds and perspectives that we bring to all our endeavors.
Sincerely,
Augustine M.K. Choi, MD
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean
Weill Cornell Medicine
Provost for Medical Affairs
Cornell University
Rache M. Simmons, M.D.
Linnie M. Golightly, M.D.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is thrilled to launch Weill Cornell Medicine’s first-ever Diversity Week. Diversity is an institutional priority at Weill Cornell Medicine that informs all aspects of our mission to care, discover, and teach. Diversity Week celebrates the many different initiatives and individuals that are moving us closer to greater equity in patient care, biomedical discovery, and medical and graduate education each day.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Hannah Valantine, the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the National Institutes of Health, who will be delivering a keynote address on April 23. Diversity Week will feature a series of departmental grand rounds, an awards ceremony and reception to honor excellence in diversity, the annual Women in Global Health Research Symposium, our annual Family Day for medical students, and many other seminars and activities.
Weill Cornell Medicine has a wide variety of initiatives that support women, men, the LGBT community, and individuals from diverse, underrepresented, and disadvantaged backgrounds in science and medicine. We thank everyone across our institution for their efforts to achieve greater equity and inclusiveness within academic medicine and for their help in making Diversity Week a success.
Sincerely,
Rache M. Simmons, M.D. and Linnie M. Golightly, M.D.
Associate Deans, Office of Diversity and Inclusion
7:00 AM – 8:00
AM Transgender Care for the Genitourinary Specialist:
Current Practice and Future Considerations
Urology
Grand Rounds | B-307
Sarah Huber, MD
Fellow,
Department of Urology
Weill Cornell
Medicine
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Unequal Care:
Causes and Solutions for Surgical Disparities in 2018
Surgery/Neurological
Surgery Grand Rounds | Uris Auditorium
Adil
Haider, MD, MPH
Kessler Director,
Center for Surgery and Public Health
Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical School
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Cardiothoracic
Surgery Grand Rounds | M-407
Gender
related differences in thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection
Berhane Worku, MD
Assistant
Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery
Weill
Cornell Medicine
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Meet and Greet
with Dr. Adil Haider
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
12:00 PM – 1:00
PM NIH Addresses the Science of Diversity: Focusing on
Institutional Change
Uris Auditorium
Hannah Valantine,
MD, MRCP
NIH
Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity
Senior
Investigator, NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM Meet and Greet
with Dr. Hannah Valantine, MD, MRCP
BB 204-A/B/C
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Achieving
Racial/Ethnic Diversity For Medical School Faculties
Obstetrics and
Gynecology Grand Rounds | Uris Auditorium
Henry W. Foster, Jr,.
MD
Professor
Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Former Dean of the School of
Medicine and Former Acting President of Meharry
Medical College
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Diversity
Awards Ceremony and Reception
Griffis Faculty Club
8:30 AM – 9:30
AM Health Equity: Improving the Healthcare Ecosystem through
Promotion of Cultures of Inclusion
Pediatrics Grand
Rounds | Uris Auditorium
Yewande J. Johnson, MD
Assistant
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
George
Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences
10:30 AM –
11:15 AM Women in Research: Progress Through
Collaboration
Women in Global Health Research
Initiative Scientific Conference
Griffis Faculty Club
Judith Currier, MD
Chair,
AIDS Clinical Trials Group
Professor
of Medicine
David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
12:00 PM – 1:00
PM R0 and the Culture Club Paradox in Diversifying
the Biomedical Sciences Faculty
Microbiology
& Immunology Grand Rounds | A-250
Avery August, PhD
Professor
of Immunology
Cornell
University
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM Preventing HIV
Infection in Women- Success and Challenges
Women in Global Health Research
Initiative Scientific Conference
Griffis Faculty Club
Quarraisha Abdool-Karim,
PhD
Associate
Scientific Director, CAPRISA
Professor in
Clinical Epidemiology
Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health
4:45 PM – 5:30
PM Next Steps to Support the Next Generation of Female
Leaders in Global Health Research
Women in Global Health Research
Initiative Scientific Conference
Griffis Faculty Club
Dr. Judith Currier, Dr. Quarraisha Abdool-Karim, Dr. Robert Bollinger
5:00 PM – 6:00
PM Students and Residents with Children: Career Planning and
Resources | Weill Auditorium
C-200
Laura Forese, MD
Executive Vice President, Chief
Operating Officer
NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital
Caitlin Hoffman, MD
Assistant
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Dana Zappetti, MD
Associate Dean
Student Affairs
Assistant
Professor of Medicine
Elizabeth Arleo,
MD
Associate
Professor of Radiology
Ian Drexler, MD
Assistant
Professor of Radiology
Weill Cornell
Medicine
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Meet and Greet
with Dr. Charles D. Howell, MD
Cornell Center
for Health Equity and the Department of Medicine
Petaluma 1356 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10021
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Management of
Chronic Hepatitis C Infections
Medicine Grand
Rounds | Uris Auditorium
Charles D. Howell, MD
Professor
and Chair, Department of Medicine
Howard University
College of Medicine
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Issues of Diversity in Psychiatry: A Panel Discussion
Psychiatry Grand
Rounds | Uris Auditorium
Anna Fels, MD
Clinical
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Alexandra Tatum, MD
Chief Resident in
Psychiatry
Khadijah Booth Watkins, MD
Assistant
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Jess Zonana, MD
Assistant
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Weill Cornell
Medicine
12:00 PM – 1:00
PM The Good That Diversity Produces
Medical Ethics in
Medicine | A-250
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, PhD
Professor
of Medical Ethics in Medicine
Weill
Cornell Medicine
1:00 PM – 2:00
PM Racial Disparity in Healthcare: The Case of Joint Replacement
Utilization
Healthcare Policy
and Research Grand Rounds | A-250
Said A. Ibrahim, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief,
Division of Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation
Weill
Cornell Medicine
12:30 PM – 1:30
PM Gender Diversity in Radiology
Radiology Grand
Rounds | A-950
Lucy Spalluto, MD
Assistant
Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM LGBT Health
Advocacy in Academic Medicine | Weill
(C-200)
John Paul Sanchez MD, MPH
Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Co-Executive Director, LMSA National Inc.
President, Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Inc.
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Meet and Greet
with Dr. John Paul Sanchez MD, MPH | E-115
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Unconscious
Bias
Faculty
Development | Griffis Faculty Club
Erika Abramson, MD
Assistant
Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research
MacKenzi Nicole Hillard,
MD
Assistant
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Joy Deanna Howell, MD
Associate
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medicine
10:00 AM –
11:00 AM Gender
Diversity in Radiation Oncology
Radiation
Oncology Grand Rounds | A-950
Onyi Balogun, MD
Assistant
Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Weill
Cornell Medicine
12:00 PM – 1:00
PM Microaggression
| A-950
Ruth Gotian, EdD, MS
Administrative
Director, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
Weill
Cornell Medicine
1:00 PM – 2:00
PM Making Information Technology Accessible for People with
Disabilities | A-250
Dan Dickinson
Associate
Director, Web Communications
Weill
Cornell Medicine
3:00 PM – 4:00
PM Experiences of First-Generation Students at Elite
Campuses
Olin Hall Lounge
Keith LaScalea,
MD
Associate Professor of Clinical
Medicine
Weill Cornell
Medicine
Maria Papadakis, EdD
Program
Manager, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Princeton
University
Edwin Rosendo
WCM Student
Michelina Diona Stoddard
WCM MD/PHD Student
4:30 PM – 7:30
PM Fair Play: A Virtual Game to Break the Bias Habit
Griffis Faculty Club
Christine Pribbenow,
PhD
Senior
Scientist
University
of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education
Molly Carnes, MD, MS
Professor in the Medicine,
Psychiatry, and Industrial & Systems Engineering Departments,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Donald D. Dantzler, MSEd
Outreach Specialist
University of Wisconsin-Madison
5:30 PM – 6:30
PM Saving More Than Vision: What Every Ophthalmologist Needs
to Know about Intimate Partner Violence
Ophthalmology
Grand Rounds
1305 York Ave, 2nd floor, Selma
Ruben Conference Center, Room C
Erin Shriver, MD
Clinical
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Friday, April 27,
2018
10:00 AM – 11:30
AM Diversity
and Inclusion from a Staff Perspective
Human Resources
402 E. 67th Street, (Between York
and 1st Avenues)
Conference Rooms C1: A-B
Jamal Lopez, Moderator
Associate Director, Employee
Relations & Development
Cindy Chen
Manager, Project Management Office
Odell Jones Jr.
Assistant Director, Human
Resources Systems and Analytics
Saadia Malik
ITS Senior Departmental Liaison
Lavet Velez
Associate, Project Management
Office
Mark Enright
Assistant Director, Physician Organization
Administrative Services
12:00 PM – 6:30
PM Family Day | Various locations
Open to medical students and their families only.
Register here:
https://alumni.weill.cornell.edu/familyday
9:00 AM – 4:00
PM Closing the Representation Gap | Uris Auditorium and A-950
Black & Latino Men in Medicine
Conference
RSVP at https://bit.ly/2DZtRk5
Hannah Valantine, MD, MRCP
NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity
Senior Investigator, NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
NIH Addresses the Science of Diversity: Focusing on Institutional Change
Monday, April 23, 2018
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Uris Auditorium
Co-hosted with the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Abstract: NIH’s first Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity Dr. Hannah Valantine will describe NIH’s current approach and activities related to enhancing scientific workforce diversity. She will highlight four main diversity challenges facing biomedicine: Advancing scholarship of the science of diversity; Using a data-driven scientific approach to understand diversity drivers and outcomes; Studying and mitigating the role of sociocultural factors in recruitment, retention, and career advancement; and Sustaining future workforce diversity. She will also highlight development and use of the NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity Toolkit, a free, downloadable interactive resource institutions can use to help advance their own faculty diversity. The toolkit guides users through evidence-based interrelated activities that her office is currently using to enhance diversity in the NIH intramural research program. These include expanding diversity of the candidate pool, proactive outreach to diverse talent, mitigating bias in search processes, and developing/sustaining mentoring relationships. A key focus will be the need to advance institutional accountability for lasting change. Please visit the NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity website (https://diversity.nih.gov) and Dr. Valantine’s blog (https://diversity.nih.gov/blog) for more information.
Biography: Dr. Hannah Valantine is the first NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, and a Senior Investigator in the Intramural Research Program at NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Prior to arriving at NIH in April 2014, Dr. Valantine was Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Leadership at Stanford, a position she held since November 2004. She is nationally recognized for her transformative approaches to diversity and is a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pathfinder Award for Diversity in the Scientific Workforce. She is currently leading NIH efforts to promote diversity through innovation across the NIH-funded biomedical workforce through a range of evidence-based approaches. Dr. Valantine maintains an active clinical research program that continues to have high impact on patient care. Current research extends her previous finding that an organ transplant is essentially a genome transplant, and that monitoring the level of donor DNA in a recipient’s blood as a marker of organ damage will detect early stages of rejection. She is currently overseeing a multi-site consortium of mid-Atlantic transplant centers to validate these findings clinically toward the development of a non-invasive tool for detecting early signs of organ rejection.
The 2018 recipients of awards honoring exceptional contributions to diversity at Weill Cornell Medicine will be recognized at the:
Diversity Awards Ceremony and Reception
Monday, April 23, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Griffis Faculty Club
Diversity Scholarships
Starting in 2018, full-tuition Dean’s Diversity Scholarships will be awarded to two accepted medical students annually in order to support the diversity of the student body. This new program will be formally announced at the Diversity Awards Ceremony and Reception.
Dean’s Diversity and Healthcare Disparity Research Awards
The inaugural Dean’s Diversity and Healthcare Disparity Research Awards will support excellence in research to improve the health of underrepresented minorities and/or reduce health disparities in healthcare systems and in clinical settings, either locally or globally. This year’s recipients will be formally announced and will present posters of their research at the Diversity Awards Ceremony and Reception.
Faculty Award awardees:
Jessica Ancker
Jennifer Downs
Erica Phillps
Laura Pinheiro
Fellows/Postdoc awardees:
Elizabeth Luth
Fontasha Powell
Mavee Witherspoon
Resident awardees:
Peter Kennel
Lauren Kelly
Robert White
Medical/Graduate student awardees:
Yoshiko Toyoda
Rachel Umans
William T. Foley Distinguished Professor of Medicine
The Laurie H. Glimcher, MD Award for Excellence in Mentoring Women recognizes outstanding men and women faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine who demonstrate commitment to advancing the academic careers of women in the areas of clinical care, research, or education. The individual must have a track record of providing strong mentorship, as well as fostering a nurturing and supportive environment for all faculty.
Tri-Institutional MD-PhD student, class of 2018
The Ida Sophia Scudder, MD Award for Excellence in Public Service recognizes an MD, PhD, MD-PhD, or PA student who has made significant contributions in the field of community service and providing care to the underserved.
MD student, class of 2018
The Ida Sophia Scudder, MD Award for Excellence in Public Service recognizes an MD, PhD, MD-PhD, or PA student who has made significant contributions in the field of community service and providing care to the underserved.
Curriculum Assistant
The Administrative Staff Award recognizes staff members who embody the spirit of cultural diversity and service. This award honors staff members who have gone beyond the call of duty to make sure the environment is inclusive, engaging and welcoming, and whose efforts may often go unnoticed.
Sharon Brooks
Curriculum Assistant
Resident in Internal Medicine, NYP/WCMC
The Louis Wade Sullivan, MD Award for Excellence in Public Health Advocacy honors a resident or postdoctoral fellow who has been an outspoken champion for health promotion and a public health advocate, especially for medically underserved populations.
Maurice Hinson, MD
Resident in Internal Medicine, NYP/WCMC
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
The Bruce Laine Ballard, MD Award for Excellence in Mentorship is presented to a faculty member who demonstrates a commitment to improving student life and to fostering a nurturing and supportive environment where students are able to thrive and succeed.
Anthony Ogedegbe, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
