The Rochester Branch of the NAACP awarded LaPrincess Brewer, M.D., its “Nancy Hart Meritorious Service Award” [...]
The Third Annual Office of Health Disparities Research Retreat, held on September 28 and 29, 2015, was attended by seventy-two participants from across Mayo Clinic, including 6 from Arizona, 9 from Florida and 57 from Minnesota. The participants included Physicians, Clinician Investigators, Allied Health, and collaborators from partner institutes such as Arizona State University, University of Florida, members of Mayo Clinic Community Advisory Boards, and health disparities office leaders under the clinical and educational shields. In addition, the chair of Mayo Clinic’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion, Dr. Sharonne Hayes, discussed overall diversity and inclusion efforts across the enterprise. The opening remarks were made by Dr. Gregory Gores, who emphasized the need for team science, discussed the Diversity Roadmap at Mayo Clinic, and described how OHDR was well on its way to achieving the metrics laid out for it by Office for Diversity and Inclusion.
The Mayo Clinic Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR) is pleased to announce four awards for 2016 pilot research projects. The OHDR provides seed [...]
Mayo Clinic researchers Richard White, M.D., Community Internal Medicine, and Hadiya Guerrero, D.P.T, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, have been selected by the National Institute on [...]
Judith Kaur, M.D., says it was her grandmother who first put the thought of becoming a doctor into her head. "My grandmother, Ada, [...]
Mayo Clinic climbed to the No. 3 position on the 2015 DiversityInc Top 5 Hospitals and Health Systems list. The DiversityInc rankings, announced [...]
LaPrincess Brewer, M.D., M.P.H., an advanced cardiovascular disease fellow within the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic, was recently named the Dr. Jay Brown Best Abstract Competition Winner by the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc. (ABC) for her oral presentation on a community-based participatory research collaboration
Health disparities researcher Sean Phelan, Ph.D., recently spoke about organizational diversity climate and stigma in a Grand Rounds presentation hosted by the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at Mayo Clinic.
Unconscious bias, also called implicit bias, affects health care providers every day, especially when they are stressed or tired. Swift and automatic, it can reduce quality of care and even lead to medical errors. Michelle van Ryn, Ph.D., HSR – Health Care Policy and Research, is Principal Investigator of Mayo’s Research Group on Equity and Inclusion in Health Care. “All of us, despite the best of all possible intentions, are affected by unconscious processes. It affects what we see, how we react, how we feel, how we behave. If we’re not aware of it and taking measures to counter it, it affects quality of care.” Watch Dr. van Ryn describe her research in this video: https://youtu.be/igf3telOA5E
Reducing liver disease in immigrant African communities With funding from the Mayo Clinic Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR), a team led by Lewis Roberts, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., is working to help reduce high rates of liver disease in immigrant African communities. “The diseases that we study — hepatitis and liver cancer — have a huge impact on communities, because they cause illness in individuals who are in the prime of their lives, in their most productive years,” says Dr. Roberts. Watch Dr. Roberts describe his research in this video: https://youtu.be/EcOa1uRz4U4
