AMA Prioritizing Equity

This episode of the Prioritizing Equity series will delve into the critical issue of ageism in medicine, examining how age-related biases affect physicians and the quality of care they provide. We'll explore why hospitals and regulatory policies should shift from focusing on a physician's age to evaluate their care quality data and performance metrics. Guests will discuss the impacts of ageism, personal experiences, and the policy changes needed to ensure that all physicians, regardless of age, can continue to contribute meaningfully and that senior patients receive equitable care.  Panelists Jenny L. Boyer, MD, PhD, JD, Chair-Elect, Senior Physicians Section Governing Council, American Medical Association Ramona Rhodes, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Hospice, and Palliative Care, UT Southwestern Medical Center  Ved Gossain, MD, Shwartz Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Michigan State University  Moderator William Jordan, MD, MPH, Senior Director of Equity Policy and Transformation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

In this episode of our Prioritizing Equity series, we are joined by physicians and experts who will discuss the Black maternal health crisis faced by mothers and their children. Panelists will examine why Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women in addition to the various factors that contribute to these inequities. In addition, panelists will discuss how social determinants of health prevent many racially and ethnically marginalized and minoritized people from having equitable opportunities for physical, mental, and emotional health. Lastly, panelists will explore the solutions needed to transform the maternal health care system.  Panelists Denise Pines - Co-Founder and CEO of Women in the Room Productions and President of Osteopathic Medical Board of California Ebony Marcelle, DNP, CNM, FACNM, Director of Midwifery at Community of  Hope  Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH, CEO of MLK Community Healthcare  

This episode will inform physicians and medical trainees about the critical intersection of incarceration, voter rights, and health outcomes. It will explore how disenfranchisement during and after incarceration affects the health and well- being of impacted individuals and communities. Through expert insights, the episode will delve into the broader implications for medicine and public health, highlighting the role physicians can play in advocating for voter protections and deepening patient support. Panelists Charles D. Lee, MD, JD, MBA, American College of Correctional Physicians Ronald F. Day, PhD, MPA Senior Vice President, The Fortune Society  

In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, we will discuss the AMA's “Embedding Equity in Crisis Preparedness and Response in Health Systems Guide,” which was released earlier this year. This guide was created in partnership with national health equity and racial justice leaders, organizations and physicians. Partners came together during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop the guide to support health care organizations in ensuring equity and racial justice lens guides those preparing and responding to crises. Panelists Mitch Stripling, MPA, Director, NYC Pandemic response Institute Columbia University. @mitchstripling Christa-Marie Singleton, MD, MPH, FACPM, Chief Medical Officer, Healthcare and Insurance, U.S. Office of Personnel Management  Moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD, Health Equity Data and Research, American Medical Association Center for Health Equity 

In this episode of our Prioritizing Equity series(Released on July 22nd, 2024), we are joined by international medical graduate (IMG) physicians who will discuss their experience in medicine. Panelists will reflect on their journey from medical school outside of the United States to practicing in the U.S. Physicians will also discuss the barriers IMGs experience and the policies that they are currently advocating for to make medicine more equitable for healthcare workers and patients.  Panelist Natalia Solenkova, MD, PHD, MLS intensivist physician and Chair of the International Medical Graduate Section (IMGS) Governing Council  Luis Alberto Isea Mercado, MD, Assistant Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency at AdvenHealth Central Orlando and delegate of the International Medical Graduate Section (IMG) Governing Council  Moderator William Jordan, MD, MPH, Senior Director of Health Equity Policy and Transformation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

In this week's episode of our Prioritizing Equity series, we are joined by physicians and scholarly leaders who are advocating for equitable climate action to remedy the disproportionate burden of health harms climate crisis puts on historically marginalized communities. Speakers will examine climate justice policy and the role of the medical community and experts in leading society toward a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels (or towards renewable energy). In addition, panelists will discuss what actions physicians and medical professions can take to address climate change harms.  Panelists Cheryl Holder, MD Associate Professor and Faculty Director of Panther Communities at the Florida International University Jerry P. Abraham, MD MPH CMQ, Director & Chief Vaccinologist, CDU-KEDREN Mobile Street Medicine;  President, Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA  Aru Shiney-Ajay, Executive Director of Sunrise Movement   Kyle Hill, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health    

In this episode of the Prioritizing Equity series (Released on May 21st, 2024), panelists will share the importance of teaching, implementing and adapting culturally responsive communication models for addressing health inequities. Physicians will reflect on and share examples from their personal and professional experiences of designing curriculum, developing screening practices, and investigating barriers and facilitators of culturally responsive communication utilizing health justice frameworks Moderator William Jordan, MD, MPH, Senior Director of Health Equity Policy and Transformation, American Medical Association Center for Health Equity Panelists Lalit Narayan, MD, MBBS, MA, Primary Care Internist, GW Medical Faculty Associates, Assistant Professor of Medicine, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences    Leon McCrea, II MD, MPH, FAAFP, Senior Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Drexel University College of Medicine    Chavon Onumah, MD, MPH, MEd, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  Maranda C. Ward, EdD, MPH, PI, Two in One Model and Assistant Professor and Director of Equity, Department of Clinical Research and Leadership

This week's episode of Prioritizing Equity series brings together the physicians featured in "Our Legacy in Practice: A Physician's Story” videos. Today, panelists will discuss the importance of identity concordance for aspiring physicians and take a closer look at some of the themes highlighted in the videos. Each physician will take a deeper dive into their medical school experience and reflect on an experience in medicine that has impacted their career thus far.  Panelists Ciciley Littlewolf, MD Javier Guevara, MD, FAAFP  Nicole Riddle, MD, MSHI, FCAP, FASCP 

This edition of the Prioritizing Equity series follows recent policy adopted at the AMA's House of Delegates meeting in June 2022 as panelists will discuss gender equity in medicine and how COVID-19 has exacerbated experiences for people identifying as women. The episode will also explore both historical and present inequities in medical education, employment, and leadership opportunities. Panelists Dr. Tania Jenkins is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of North Caroli both historical and present inequities in medical education, employment, and leadership opportunities. na-Chapel Hill and a faculty research fellow at UNC's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.  Twitter: @TaniaMJenkins Jasmine Brown is a 4th year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, a Rhodes Scholar and the author of TWICE AS HARD: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians from the Civil War to the 21st Century.   Dr. Deena Shin McRae, MD, is the Associate Vice President of Academic Health Sciences for University of California and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at UC Irvine School of Medicine  Moderator Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank

This week's episode of Prioritizing Equity will discuss how the recent affirmative action ruling undermines policy dedicated to increasing physician diversity, which is vital to the healthcare ecosystem and will have negative implications towards increasing medical career opportunities for marginalized and minoritized people as well as for patients and communities.  Panelists Jessica Faiz, MD, MSHPM, Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA, Core Investigator with the VA Center for the Study of Healthcare, Innovation, Implementation, and Policy @im_jesssayinn   Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor for Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, @merlinc2   David Henderson, MD, VP Equity, Diversity and Belonging in Medical Education American Medical Association   Moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD, Vice President of Health Equity Data and Research, American Medical Association, Center for Health Equity and Professor of Sociology, DePaul University - Twitter: @fernandodemaio  

This week's edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy — a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study and model. Panelists Ayesha Jaco, Executive Director, West Side United – Twitter: @WSUnitedChi Adam Alonso, Chief Executive Officer of BUILD Chicago David Ansell, MD, MPH, SVP, Community Health Equity Rush University Medical Center  Moderator Diana Derige, DrPH, Vice President, Health Equity Strategy, American Medical Association, Center for Health Equity - Twitter: @double_DRPH  Subscribe to the Prioritizing Equity podcast: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/ama-podcasts#ama-prioritizing-equity  

In this edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing houselessness and discuss the importance of equitable, holistic, cost effective, evidence-based discharge planning.   Panelists Margot Kushel, MD, Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center – Twitter: @MKushel   Stephen Brown, MSW, LCSW, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System Denise De Las Nueces, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program  Yinan Lan, MD, Homeless Health Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals   Dez Martinez, Founder of We Are Not Invisible and member of the BHHI Lived Expertise Advisory Board: @weinvisible  Moderator Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH, Director of Social Justice Education and Implementation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @EClevelandMD    Subscribe to the Prioritizing Equity podcast: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/ama-podcasts#ama-prioritizing-equity Learn more: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Firearm violence is a public health crisis. In this week's Prioritizing Equity panel, we explore the work of physicians in health systems and beyond in the realms of public health, public safety, and firearm violence prevention. Panel: Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, Incoming Dean of Yale School of Public Health – Twitter: @meganranney Eric Reinhart, MD, PGY2 psychiatry resident at Northwestern University – Twitter: @_Eric_Reinhart Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine – Twitter: @JosephSakran Dr. Brian Williams, MD, Trauma & Acute Care Surgeon in Dallas, TX – Twitter: @BHWilliamsMD Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank  Subscribe to the Prioritizing Equity podcast: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/ama-podcasts#ama-prioritizing-equity Learn more: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

In this edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, join medical student organizers and policy advocates as they discuss increasing access to care in native communities and improving care within the Indian Health Services through health policy. Panel: Tamee Livermont [Tam/Me - Liv/er/Mont], MPH, Oglala Lakota Medical Student, UMN Medical School Alec Calac [Al/Ek- Cal/Ek], MD/PHD Candidate, UC San Diego, Association of Native American Medical Students Ashton Glover-Gatewood [Ash/ton-Glow/Ver-Gatewood], MPH, OMS-3, Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at Cherokee Nation  Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank  Subscribe to the Prioritizing Equity podcast: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/ama-podcasts#ama-prioritizing-equity Learn more: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

Learn more about the AMA Peer Network: https://ama-assn.org/peer-network In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President at the AMA Center for Health Equity speaks with participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety program on their strategies to start operationalizing equity into their quality and safety operations. Panel: Aderonke Akingbola, MD, MMM, AGAF, CPE Vice President, Medical Affairs, Ochsner Health  Judy C. Washington, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Atlantic Medical Group Moderator: Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President, Equitable Health Systems, AMA Center for Health Equity Topics discussed in this episode: Introduction Introduction of the panelists Equity at the intersection of health care quality and safety Addressing inequities through quality and safety reporting Peer Network framework Harm event reporting Creating psychological safe spaces Building teams to improve safety and equity The challenges of transforming the health care system Harm event case studies Successful outcomes from this work Lessons for health systems from the Peer Network Subscribe to the Prioritizing Equity podcast: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/ama-podcasts#ama-prioritizing-equity Learn more: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts. Panel:  Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH—President and CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health Krishna Upadhya, MD, MPH—Vice President, Quality Care and Health Equity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Topics discussed in this episode: Introduction  Introduction of the panelists  Policing and criminalization of reproductive health care  Abortion access and inequities in health care  The end of Roe v Wade and a new legal frontier for abortion rights  The impact of the overturning of Roe and access to abortions  Substandard medical care being mandated by states  How the legal system can provide rights & access to health services  Abortion, reproductive justice, & human rights  Finding hope in health care justice work The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. Explore the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care and how physicians can push past it to advance health equity. Daniel Markovits, JD, Melody S. Goodman, PhD, Tomás Diaz, MD and moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD discuss in this Prioritizing Equity panel. Panel: Daniel Markovits, JD—Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School Melody S. Goodman, PhD—Associate Dean for Research/Associate Professor of Biostatistics, New York University School of Global Public Health Tomás Diaz, MD—Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Educator at Columbia University Medical Center Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Resources: The Meritocracy Trap (book): https://www.themeritocracytrap.com/ Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf Education from AMA Center for Health Equity: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity The AMA's Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2021-05/ama-equity-strategic-plan.pdf Originally aired: March 14th, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. This week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series focuses on the power of narratives and language in health care. It explores how dominant narratives perpetuate harm, and offers examples of how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives. Read the guide: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf Panel: Philip M. Alberti, PhD—Founding Director, AAMC Center for Health Justice and Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy at Association of American Medical Colleges David A. Ansell, MD, MPH—Senior Vice President and Associate Provost, Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center Renee Canady, PhD, MPA—Chief Executive Officer of MI Public Health Institute Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP—Senior Director, Equity and Social Accountability, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); Assistant Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Services Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: February 14th, 2022  The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

The January 24, 2022 edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series focuses on redistributive justice and its impact on the health of patients and communities that have been socially and economically marginalized and minoritized. Panel: Ivelyse Andino—Founder and CEO of Radical Health William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., PhD—Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD—Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: January 24, 2022 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In this October 4, 2021, Prioritizing Equity discussion, AMA Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and leaders across a continuum of disciplines discuss critical race theory and its applications to the field of health equity. Panel: Dennis C. Chin—Vice president of Narrative, Arts, and Culture, Race Forward Malika Sharma, MD, MEd—Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital; assistant professor, University of Toronto Bram Wispelwey, MD, MS, MPH—Senior fellow at Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity, associate physician, Division of Global Health Equity Brigham & Women's Hospital Rahel Zewude, MD—Black Physicians of British Columbia, Black Physicians of Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: October 4th, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In this July 12, 2021 Prioritizing Equity discussion AMA Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, is joined by a panel of experts to examine the ways that white physicians can get actively involved in the fight for racial justice. Learn how doctors can become accomplices to advance equity. Panel: David A. Ansell, MD, MPH—Senior vice president and associate provost in community health equity at Rush University Medical Center Esther K. Choo, MD, MPH—Professor at the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine in the department of emergency medicine at Oregon Health and Science University Bay Love, MBA, MPP—Partner at the Groundwater Institute and organizer at the Racial Equity Institute Kimberly D. Manning, MD, FACP, FAAP—Professor of medicine and associate vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion at the department of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: July 12th, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. This Pride Month, Kameryn Lee, MD, joins Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH for a special Prioritizing Equity discussion on what physicians can do to best support and center the voices of LGBTQ patients while continuing to advance health equity. Originally aired: June 14th, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. How can equity be further integrated into medical education? In this May 31, 2021 edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in medical education discuss the importance of embedding equity in health care education and envision new paths towards justice. Panel: Candice Chen, MD, MPH—Associate professor, Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity at the George Washington University Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH—Assistant professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: May 31st, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. As our AMA Equity Plan reveals, achieving health equity and embedding racial justice requires action and accountability. In this May 17, 2021, Prioritizing Equity panel, leaders in health and higher education discuss why acknowledging historical harms is critical to bringing lasting change to health care. Panel: Robert E. Fullilove, EdD—Associate dean, Community and Minority Affairs and professor, Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Clarence C. Gravlee, PhD—Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Learn more about the details of the AMA Equity Plan.  Originally aired: May 17th, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. How can we work to establish a more equitable future? In this May 3, 2021, Prioritizing Equity panel, health leaders discuss why advancing health equity must require sharing power through effective alliances with those who have experienced marginalization and injustice across generations. Panel: jewel bush—Chief of external affairs, Girl Trek Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA—Co-founder and executive director, Birth Detroit; co-founder and co-director, Birth Center Equity Guest moderator: Diana Derige, DrPH—Director, health equity strategy & development, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: May 3rd, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. COVID-19 has highlighted the persistent health inequities that exist in the U.S. In this April 19, 2021, edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, health leaders use the pandemic as a lens to examine how quality and safety can drive equitable health care and outcomes moving forward. Panel: Louis H. Hart, MD—Director of equity, quality & safety, Office of Quality & Safety at NYC Health + Hospitals Kedar Mate, MD—President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Guest Moderator: Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS—Vice president of equitable health systems and innovation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association; medical director for quality safety and equity, Brigham Health Originally aired: April 19th, 2021  The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. COVID-19 has changed the nature of work for many Americans. The April 5, 2021 installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series explores why employers must be as equally invested as the government and health care community in ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for their workforce. Panel: Marina Del Rios, MD, MS—Associate professor of clinical emergency medicine, director of social emergency medicine and emergency ultrasound research director at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP—Chief medical officer, Aetna; senior vice president, CVS Health Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: April 1st, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

AMA's Prioritizing Equity series brings together revered voices to discuss how a year of the pandemic has impacted minoritized and marginalized physicians, in this March 18, 2021 webinar. In a conversation moderated by AMA Group Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, experts illuminate the effect COVID-19 has had on communities that historically and contemporarily experienced inequities. Panel: Leon McDougle, MD, MPH—121st President, National Medical Association; Professor of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; Chief Diversity Officer, The OSU Wexner Medical Center Mary Owen, MD—Director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health, University of Minnesota Medical School; President of the Association of American Indian Physicians Elena Rios, MD, MSPH—President and CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association Hector Vargas, JD—Executive director of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality Winston F. Wong, MD, MS, FAAFP—Chairman, National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired March 18, 2021. The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In this February 25, 2021, edition of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in health justice discuss how trauma-informed approaches impact advancing equity among minoritized and marginalized communities during COVID-19. Panel: Alec Calac—Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians; global public health MD/PhD student at UC San Diego School of Medicine; national policy director for the Association of Native American Medical Students L. Toni Lewis, MD—President and founder, Liberation Health Strategies; co-founder, Health Equity Cypher Nadia Richardson, PhD—DEI trainer; mental health advocate; professor of UAB School of Health Professions, University of Alabama Guest moderator: Mia Keeys, MA, DrPH(c)—Director, health equity policy & advocacy, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: February 25th, 2021 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

In this February 11, 2021, installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, health justice leaders and advocates as discuss the ways in which COVID-19 uniquely impacts people with disabilities. Tune in as they share immediate and long-term improvement strategies for ensuring equity. Panel: Irma Gomez— Assistant director of the learning commons at Roosevelt University and advocate for students with disabilities Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD—Medical anthropologist, senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Maurice G. Sholas, MD, PhD— Principal for Sholas Medical Consulting Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired February 11, 2021. The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

In our first Prioritizing Equity panel of 2021, join leaders in health justice as they discuss strategies for equity in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Panel: Torian Easterling, MD, MPH—First deputy commissioner and chief equity officer at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Kaakpema "KP" Yelpaala, MPH—Chief executive officer & founder, access.mobile International, Inc. Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired January 28, 2021.  The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the December 10, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in health justice will discuss misinformation, trustworthiness, and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals. Panel: Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc: UNC at Chapel Hill Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine at the School of Medicine. Kim Gallon, PhD: Associate Professor of History at Purdue University and founder and executive director of COVID Black. Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN: Hidatsa/Dakhóta, Director of the First Nations House of Learning and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at University of British Columbia. Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS: Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) & Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine, Public Health, and Management at Yale School of Medicine. Lauren Smith, MD, MPH: Chief Health Equity and Strategy Officer for the CDC Foundation. Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Group Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: December 10th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the November 19, 2020 edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, leaders in public health and academia discuss the power of data in understanding health inequities and the systemic issues that cause them to persist. Topics will include COVID-19, the social and political context surrounding data and data analysis, as well as the challenges of quantifying health inequities and the structural and social determinants of health. Panel: Maureen Benjamins, PhD, senior research fellow at the Sinai Urban Health Institute Nancy Krieger, PhD, professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alyasah Ali Sewell, PhD, associate professor of sociology at Emory University and founder and director of The Race and Policing Project Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD, director, research and data use, AMA Center for Health Equity Originally aired: November 19th, 2020  The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

In the November 12, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, moderates a post-election conversation focusing on centering equity in health policy 2020 and beyond, plus what needs to be critical priorities when it comes to advancing advance racial and health justice. Panel: Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, president and CEO of Health Begins Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP, co-founder of Vote Health 2020 B. Cameron Webb, MD, JD, director of Health Equity Policy and Equity at University of Virginia School of Medicine Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer and vice president Originally aired: November 12th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the AMA's October 29, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, health care leaders held a critical conversation on approaches to dismantling race-based medicine across clinical practice, education and research. Panel: Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, FASN, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, director of health equity, anti-racism and community engagement Rohan Khazanchi, BA, MD/MPH candidate, medical student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center & University of Minnesota School of Public Health; member of the AMA Council on Medical Education and the AMA Medical Student Section's Region 2 delegation chair Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, co-founder, EqualHealth; assistant professor, Harvard Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd, emergency medicine physician, writer, educator and advocate in New Haven, Connecticut Darshali Vyas, MD, second-year resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer and vice president Originally aired: October 29th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. This Hispanic Heritage Month, public health leaders on the Oct. 15, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel discuss COVID-19 and the Latinx community. Topics include structural racism, the invisibility of the Latinx community in mainstream topics and the impact this has on health care access and quality. Panel: Rita Carreón, deputy vice president of health, UnidosUS Ray Mendez, MD, MA, founding physician, MiMedico Ruth Enid Zambrana, PhD, distinguished university professor and interim chair, Department of Women's Studies, director, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, and adjunct professor, family medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine Guest moderator: Diana Lemos, PhD, MPH, program manager, AMA Center for Health Equity COVID-19 and Latinx Community Report: http://cloud.e.ama-assn.org/20-1643-COVIDLatinx Originally aired: October 15th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

On October 1, 2020, the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series joined Chicago's public health leaders as they shared lessons learned, discussed the importance of equity and illuminated the challenges health departments have faced in response to the pandemic. Panel: Allison Arwady, MD, MPH—Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health Candace Moore, JD—Chief equity officer for the City of Chicago Eve Shapiro, MPH—Senior director of data & evaluation at West Side United Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: October 1, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

In the September 17, 2020 installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, physician leaders discuss the ways in which COVID-19 may uniquely impact the traditional voting process, precautions for in-person voting and the importance of the voting process for minoritized and marginalized communities. Panel: Nathan T. Chomilo, MD, FAAP—Medical director for the State of Minnesota's Medicaid & MinnesotaCare. Currently the interim policy & advocacy workgroup chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion. Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP—California Health Care Foundation, leadership fellow.   Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association. Originally aired September 17, 2020. The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

In the Sept. 3, 2020, webinar of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity series, public health officials from New York City explore how they have worked to center equity during the COVID-19 response. The New York City Department of Health team shares how partnerships and community collaboration has been key in bringing the city to a suppression phase during the pandemic. Panel: Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH—Deputy commissioner, disease control at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Torian Easterling, MD, MPH—Deputy commissioner for health equity and community wellness at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Neil M. Vora, MD—Director of tracing at NYC Health Department/Health + Hospital Corporation Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: September 3rd, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

Explore the relationship between political determinants of health and health equity in this August 20, 2020, installment of the AMA's Prioritizing Equity YouTube series. Join us as leaders in health care and politics discuss both the immediate and long-term impact political determinants of health have on the nation as it grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. Panel: Daniel E. Dawes, JD—Professor of health policy, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and author of the book “The Political Determinants of Health.” Jesus “Chuy” Garcia—Congressman Garcia represents the 4th Congressional District of Illinois. He currently serves as a member of the influential Financial Services Committee, Natural Resources Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC). Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association. Originally aired: August 20th, 2020  The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In this August 6, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, join the AMA's Immediate-past President Patrice Harris, MD, Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, and health leader Luz M. Garcini, PhD, MPH, as they illuminate COVID-19's immediate and long-term effects on the mental health of minoritized and marginalized communities. Panel: Luz M. Garcini, PhD, MPH—Assistant professor at the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, and a faculty scholar at the Mexico Center Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA—Immediate-past president, American Medical Association Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, American Medical Association Originally aired: August 6th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Explore the ways COVID-19 may uniquely impact Asian American and Pacific Islander communities during the latest installment of our YouTube health equity series. Hear from East Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian health care leaders on topics such as the pandemic's impact on Asian communities, data trends, and health equity concerns. Panel: Ignatius Bau, JD—Policy consultant for the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH—Internist, ABC News contributor, former health equity leader and chief medical officer of the American Hospital Association Ryan Huerto, MD, MPH, MA—Family medicine physician and health service researcher Julie Morita, MD—Executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Ray Samoa, MD—Assistant professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California Manisha A. Sharma, MD, FAAFP—California Health Care Foundation, leadership fellow Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: July 16th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct  

In this July 2, 2020, installment of our Prioritizing Equity YouTube series, join physicians and health equity leaders as they illuminate the ways in which physicians are moving upstream to reimagine, redesign and reconstruct what a more equitable health care system can look like. Panel: Sandra Hernández, MD—President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH—President & CEO, Health Begins Lauren R. Powell, MPA, PhD—VP, head of healthcare industry, TIME'S UP David Zuckerman, MPP—Director of Healthcare Anchor Network, The Democracy Collaborative Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: July 2nd, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. This June 18, 2020 installment of Prioritizing Equity focused on how COVID-19 may uniquely impact LGBTQ individuals and communities. Hear from LGBTQ physician leaders on topics such as the pandemic's impact on testing, trends and equity concerns in health care and beyond. Panel: Oni Blackstock, MD—Assistant commissioner for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of HIV Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, FASA, FAMIA—Senior associate dean and director, Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment David J. Malebranche, MD, MPH—Associate professor of medicine, director, Student Employee Health Services at Morehouse School of Medicine Shilpen Patel, MD, FACRO, FASTRO—Radiation oncologist, associate professor in the UW Department of Global Health and affiliate appointment in the Division of Public Health at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH, FACP—Senior director of research and education at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—Chief health equity officer, group vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association Originally aired: June 18th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct

Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity. In the June 11, 2020, installment of our YouTube Prioritizing Equity series, join practicing physicians and leaders in health care as they share how they are addressing root causes of inequity during COVID-19 and beyond—by centering equity in their workspaces and dismantling racist policies and practices. Panel: David A. Ansell, MD, MPH–Associate provost for community affairs, Rush University; the Michael E. Kelly, MD, presidential professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College; senior vice president for community health equity, Rush University Medical Center Kamini Doobay, MD, MS–Emergency medicine resident physician at NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital; organizer/founder, NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH–Assistant professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine; works clinically in the Emergency Department at Boston Medical Center Michael Mensah, MD, MPH–Chief resident at UCLA Health and APA resident fellow member trustee LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, MD candidate–Second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, serving as the first documented black women student council president at Harvard Medical School Brian Williams, MD–Associate professor of trauma and acute care surgery at the University of Chicago Moderator: AMA Chief Health Equity Officer Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH Originally aired: June 11th, 2020 The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct