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Mayo Clinic climbed to the No. 3 position on the 2015 DiversityInc Top 5 Hospitals and Health Systems list. The DiversityInc rankings, announced April 23[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • May 22, 2015

OHDR’s Native American Research Outreach (NARO) team recently visited the Red Lake and White Earth reservations in Minnesota to facilitate preliminary data collection for a[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • May 18, 2015

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[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • May 6, 2015

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[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • April 17, 2015

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[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • April 2, 2015

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,[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • March 23, 2015

Mayo Clinic's Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR) provides funding and support for health disparities research to understand and fulfill the unmet needs of patients.[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • March 13, 2015

A spate of Mayo Clinic articles, events and activities have recently featured, or soon will be featuring, OHDR or health disparities in research and practice:[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • March 6, 2015

Matt Bondaryk, a health services analyst at Mayo Clinic, recently received the Mayo Clinic Community Caring Award. This award is given to employees for outstanding[...]

By Chara Chamie • February 17, 2015

The first annual Arizona Health Equity Conference was held on October 30, 2014, in Glendale, Arizona. The conference brought together 275 professionals from across the[...]

By Chara Chamie • January 8, 2015