Why the Time is Now For Equity in Medicine

Below is the text of an abridged version of my talk for the opening plenary session of the Association of … More

How Your Physician’s Prejudices May Be Hurting Your Health: And What the Doctors of Tomorrow Are Doing About It

A medical student at one of the nation’s leading schools recounts how their “problem based learning cases frequently present patients … More

As medical students, we recognize that bias in medicine is doubly damaging: it burdens our peers and it harms our … More

In a little over a month, I will have completed my Masters in Public Health (MPH). Time truly flew by. … More

About time!! Doesn’t directly challenge the constitutionality of this list but a great step forward for so many Americans who … More

Joining a much-needed conversation about microaggressions isn’t about embarking on the race for accumulating the most “pity votes” as some of … More

I’m not racist. I would never refuse to give a patient pain medication or fail to properly get her on … More

“It’s funny how you switched careers. You went to medical school but now you’re doing public health,” one of my … More

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/06/09/the-outrageous-cost-of-working-in-medicine/ “60 percent of medical students, for example, hail from families with incomes in the top 20 percent of the … More

The long and cumbersome process of applying to medical schools has finally come to a close this month for applicants … More