{"id":9731,"date":"2018-04-16T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2020-07-19T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:19:53","slug":"1st-annual-health-equity-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/2018\/04\/16\/1st-annual-health-equity-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Annual Health Equity Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/im-residency\/files\/2018\/04\/HE.png\" alt=\"1st Annual Health Equity Symposium 2018\" width=\"889\" height=\"385\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9737 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/files\/2018\/04\/HE.png 889w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/files\/2018\/04\/HE-650x281.png 650w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/files\/2018\/04\/HE-768x333.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>2018 marked the inaugural Health Equity Symposium held here at Boston University Medical Center.\u00a0 The event, attended by over 200 individuals, included:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>A welcome address by Dr. Thea James, an emergency medicine physician, the\u00a0<span>vice president of mission, and associate chief medical officer<\/span>\u00a0here at BMC<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Workshops focused on health advocacy and patient experiences<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>A poster session featuring the scholarly work of 37 faculty, staff and trainees<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Booths promoting 12 community based organizations<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Awards ceremony recognizing\u00a0 BMC case manager Jasmine Cespedas-Mejia with the Health Equity Award and Best Poster winners Pooja Shah, Jodi Abbott &amp; their team.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Keynote speaker Sir Michael Marmot, a faculty member at University College London School of Medicine, the Chair of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, the Principal Investigator of the Whitehall Studies, Director of the International Institute for Society and Health, and internationally acclaimed author of <em>The Health\u00a0<\/em><em>Gap<\/em> and <em>The Status Syndrome<\/em>.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Health Equity Symposium committee includes Dr. Jenny Siegel, Dr. Megan Janeway, Alyssa Day, Dr. Thea James,\u00a0Kirsten Archer, Dr. Thiago Oliveira, Dr. Niki Arinze, Dr. Katie Nash, Davis Bradford, Dr. Raagini Jawa,\u00a0 Paige Curran, MA, Dr. Suzanne Sarfaty,\u00a0Isabel Sausjord,\u00a0<span>Emily Barbo,\u00a0Candice Bangham,\u00a0Chrystel Murrieta, and\u00a0Breanna Chachere.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 marked the inaugural Health Equity Symposium held here at Boston University Medical Center.\u00a0 The event, attended by over 200 individuals, included: A welcome address by Dr. Thea James, an emergency medicine physician, the\u00a0vice president of mission, and associate chief medical officer\u00a0here at BMC Workshops focused on health advocacy and patient experiences A poster session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17649],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11945,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/11945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-residency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}