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The Rochester Branch of the NAACP awarded LaPrincess Brewer, M.D., its “Nancy Hart Meritorious Service Award” at its 2015 Freedom Fund Banquet on October 24,[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • November 2, 2015

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,[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • October 26, 2015

The Mayo Clinic Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR) is pleased to announce four awards for 2016 pilot research projects. The OHDR provides seed funding[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • September 24, 2015

An important milestone has been reached with joint efforts between Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University regarding Cancer Survivorship. Specifically, a major RO1 National Institutes of Health/National[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • July 29, 2015

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[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • July 10, 2015

Judith Kaur, M.D., says it was her grandmother who first put the thought of becoming a doctor into her head. "My grandmother, Ada, had no[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • May 29, 2015

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