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Affirmative Action in Med Ed:
In March 1961 President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 which mandated that government contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color or national origin.” Since then, affirmative action has been a central element in efforts to promote diversity in higher education and the workplace. The strength of affirmative action policies has since waxed and waned, as the legal framework of support has changed with numerous roadblocks over time. In anticipation of the SCOTUS decision in Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard and UNC, the AMA has convened a group of thought leaders in medical education and health equity to discuss the potential consequences of an adverse decision, and new perspectives that inform our journey toward health equity and social justice. “Affirmative Action in MeEd: Exploring the Consequences of an Adverse Supreme Court Decision” is a live event that will occur on the date and time indicated above. To add this event to your calendar, select your preferred email provider and proceed with event registration. If you cannot attend the live event, an on-demand recording will be available.
William McDade, MD, PhD
William McDade, MD, PhD is the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offi cer for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and adjunct professor of Anesthesiology at Rush Medical College. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice-President/Chief Academic Offi cer for the Ochsner Health System and adjunct professor at the University of Queensland; Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago, Associate Dean for Multicultural Aff airs at the Pritzker School of Medicine; and Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues for the University of Chicago. He is founder of the James E. Bowman Society at the University of Chicago whose focus is on achieving diversity in academic excellence and the elimination of health inequities. Dr. McDade has been a pastpresident and board chair of the Chicago Medical Society and Illinois State Medical Society; and president of the Cook County Physicians Association, Chicago Society of Anesthesiologists and the Prairie State Medical Society. He has served as Chair of the National Medical Association’s Anesthesiology Section and the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education. He served on the US Department of Education’s National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation; and has been a representative to the Coalition for Physician Accountability; a board member for the National Board of Medical Examiners and for the ACGME, where he chaired the Taskforce on Diversity in Graduate Medical Education; and, has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association and on the Executive Committee of the Board of the Joint Commission. Dr. McDade is a board-certifi ed Anesthesiologist having graduated from Pritzker’s Medical Scientist Training Program earning a PhD in Biophysics and Theoretical Biology. He completed his internship in internal medicine at UChicago and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of AOA and the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence.
... Show MoreDavid A. Acosta, MD
David A Acosta. M.D. provides strategic vision and leadership for the AAMC’s diversity and inclusion activities across the medical education community and leads the association’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion unit. Dr. Acosta, a family medicine physician, joined the AAMC from the University of California (UC), Davis, School of Medicine, where he served as senior associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion and as associate vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at UC Davis Health System. He previously served as the first chief diversity officer at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, where he established the Center for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Center for Cultural Proficiency in Medical Education. Dr. Acosta earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Loyola University and his medical degree from the UC Irvine School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Community Hospital of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, California — an affiliate of the UC San Francisco School of Medicine — and a faculty development fellowship at the UW Department of Family Medicine.
... Show MoreJoaquin Baca, MSPH
Joaquin Baca, MSPH, works to advance health equity for more than 15 years. Currently he serves as the American Medical Association’s Director of MedEd Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Prior to this, Joaquin served as AMA's Senior Health Equity Policy Analyst II. He also served as a Health Extension Regional Officer, the Director of Health Equity for the New Mexico Department of Health, Program Operations Director for the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center (HSC) Office for Community Health, and Diversity Program Director for the UNM HSC Office for Diversity. In Joaquin’s work, he strives to model servant leadership and build strong, collaborative, respectful relationships with diverse communities. He brings to the table an ability to see the big picture, a willingness to listen to community priorities and to find mutually beneficial ways for our institutions to honor these, and a talent for leveraging resources by bridging the silos that are so much a part of the structure of many institutions.
... Show MoreMark C Henderson, MD, MACP
Mark C Henderson, MD, MACP is Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Dean for Admissions at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Henderson has edited several books including the Patient History: an evidence-based approach to differential diagnosis. He is co-principal investigator of the Accelerated Competency-based Education in Primary Care (ACE-PC) program and the California Oregon Medical Partnership to Address Disparities in Rural Education and Health (COMPADRE), both funded up by the American Medical Association. He has studied the MMI method for medical school interviews including as principal investigator for the California Longitudinal Evaluation of Admissions Practices (CA-LEAP) consortium. Other scholarly interests include medical student career choice, workforce diversity, utility of the medical history, and clinical reasoning.
... Show MoreSuzanne Rose, MD, MSEd
Suzanne Rose, MD, MSEd, serves as Senior Vice Dean for Medical Education at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM). In this role, Dr. Rose oversees Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) with a strong link to Graduate Medical Education (GME). Serving on the Dean’s leadership team, Dr. Rose oversees an Education Council to coordinate education across all programs at PSOM as well as to collaborate with other schools in the University. Education Council recently created IDEAL XP: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Learner Experience Program with three subdivisions including IDEAL MEd (for UME), IDEAL Research (for graduate students and post docs) and IDEAL MaC (for Master’s and Certificate Program students.) The focus of the PSOM UME education is on the learner and their future service to science, patients, and our communities. The approach is one of compassionate education with rigor and high expectations of PSOM learners while providing support and a focus on wellness. Prior to her arrival in 2018, she was Senior Associate Dean for Education at the University of Connecticut, creating a lectureless new curriculum (MDelta) and led the team to receive one of the AMA grants in the second round for a project involving the teaching medical record. Dr. Rose held several leadership roles for 13 years at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and previously held positions at Weill Cornell Medical College (1996‐1997) and at the University of Pittsburgh (1990-1996). She has served in many leadership roles in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) including as Education Councillor on the Governing Board. She convened all six GI societies to create end-of-training entrustable professional activities, co-created the first subspecialty Academy for educators in this country, served as co-director of the AGA Future Leaders Program and was appointed Course Director for the Postgraduate Course (2017). Dr. Rose was awarded the AGA Distinguished Educator Award (2016) and completed a two‐year term as co‐chair of the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and served as the chair of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs. She received the inaugural NEGEA Distinguished Service and Leadership Award in 2015. Dr. Rose received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Russian language and literature, followed by a master’s degree in education from Penn. She graduated from Case Western University School of Medicine as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and completed her internship and residency there. Her GI fellowship, including the chief fellow year, was done at The Cleveland Clinic, OH (the first woman Chief Fellow at CCF).
... Show MoreJada Ohene-Agyei, BA
Jada Ohene-Agyei, B.A. is a rising 4th year medical student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and current TL1 Frontiers Institute Scholar at the University of Kansas Medical Center. In the AMA Medical Student Section, she serves as the Region 2 Chair and Minority Issues Committee Co-Vice Chair and was the At Large Officer of the MSS Governing Council in the 2021-2022 year. This fall, she plans on applying Urology.
... Show MoreDavid Henderson, MD
David Henderson, MD is a graduate of Amherst College and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. After nineteen years of community-based practice, including one year working as a physician volunteer in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since joining the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (UConn SoM) in 2003, he has distinguished himself across a diversity of leadership roles. As an educator, Dr. Henderson was one of the faculty leaders of the curricular reform process that produced the MDelta curriculum. He also conceived and led the development of the Certificate on Social Determinants of Health Disparities, a graduation requirement that threads content related to social determinants and health equity within MDelta. Administratively, he served as the Faculty Accreditation Lead during a successful LCME accreditation site visit in 2018. He received the Alumni Association’s Distinguished Faculty Award in 2019 when he stepped down after nine years of service as Student Affairs Dean. He also served as Chair of Family Medicine and the Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs. Nationally, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, which also awarded him the Bishop Fellowship in 2015. He continues to serve on STFM’s Editorial Board. He has represented UConn SoM in the AMA ACE Consortium and served as co-chair of the executive committee and the learning environment work group. In 2021 he was selected to join the National Academic Affiliations Council which is advisory to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In May 2021 he received the UConn Board of Directors Faculty Recognition Award which is the highest honor bestowed upon faculty by the SoM. In December 2022 he retired from the SoM to begin service as the inaugural Vice President for Equity, Diversity and Belonging in Medical Education at the American Medical Association.
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