2024 DoM DEIA Week Recap

Monday, March 18th

Showcase | Hiebert Lounge (Lunch will be served)

Poster Session 1 | 11:30AM-12:30PM
Poster Session 2 | 12:30PM-1:30PM

Posters created by DoM faculty, staff, and trainees to illustrate the ongoing DEIA work in the areas of research, education, programming, patient care, and beyond.

Tuesday, March 19th

Art Exhibit

DoM artists contributed their personal work for display.

Panel: Navigating DEIA in the DoM | Keefer Auditorium (Hybrid) | 12:00PM-1:00PM

Panel discussion featuring insights from Faculty, Staff, and Trainees, on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) within the Department of Medicine (DoM). The panelists discussed their diverse experiences, perspectives, challenges, and hopes for DEIA efforts in DoM. The goal of this discussion was to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the complexities, challenges and opportunities surrounding DEIA efforts within DoM.

Panelists

Research Faculty: Kaku So-Armah, PhD, Associate Professor, GIM, Assistant Chair of DEIA
Staff: Kyla Botsian, MPH Candidate, Geriatrics Clerkship Coordinator
Clinical Faculty: Samantha Rawlins-Pilgrims, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, GIM, Director of Population Health at BHCHP
Trainee Panelist – Kara Vasilew, PhD Candidate

Wednesday, March 20th

Movie Discussion Night | Wilkins Boardroom | 5:00PM

Movie:  American Fiction

A discussion was held surrounding the 2024 Oscar Nominated film, American Fiction. The movie was streamed in our various conference rooms the week prior to DEIA Week.

Supplemental Material:
Every era has its own ‘American Fiction,’ but is there anything new to say?
The Truth in ‘American Fiction’
American Fiction is a rich story — but is it a successful satire?

Thursday, March 21st

DEIA Week Celebration | Hiebert Lounge | 4:00PM-6:00PM

DEIA Community & Group Resource tables
Food, drinks, music, paint party and more!

Friday, March 22nd

Grand Rounds | Keefer Auditorium | 12:00PM-1:00PM

“The Challenge of Inclusion: Past to Present”
Presented by Dr. Joan Y. Reede MD, MPH, MS

Section Specific Events

Thursday March 14

Hematology Oncology Seminar – Dr. Sarah Kimball: “Roadmap to Im/migrant Health: Promoting Health & Equity” | 12:00PM – 1:00PM | FGH1 Conference Room (Hybrid)

Wednesday, March 13

General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Louisa Holaday, MD, MHS: The spillover effects of mass incarceration: how exposure to incarceration influences health among non-incarcerated individuals| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Zoom only

Saturday, March 16

Dim Sum Luncheon | 12:00PM | Shojo Boston

Monday, March 18

Computational Biomedicine Seminar: Dr. Krystal Tsosie: Platforms Not Platitudes: Operationalizing Ethics and Advancing Indigenous Data and Digital Sovereignty| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Zoom only

Tuesday, March 19

Infectious Diseases Fellows Core Lecture | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Crosstown 2117 (Hybrid)
Rheumatology Disparities Accelerator Event – “Diversity and Equity in Research Participation”| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | 650 Albany Street, 2nd Floor Conference room (Hybrid)

Wednesday, March 20

GIM Ambulatory Morbidity & Mortality | 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Crosstown 2128 (Hybrid)
Rheumatology JEDI Discussion Speaker: Puja Mehta, MD – “Data Bias: Challenges and Opportunities” | 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Evans 5 (Hybrid)
Boston MCRC Methodology Rheumatology Journal Club – “Use of Race & Ethnicity Variables in Clinical Research” | 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM | Zoom
Cardiology Grand Rounds: Clyde Yancey, MD (Northwestern University) – “Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness in Cardiovascular Medicine” | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | INS 311 (Hybrid)
Pulmonary Grand Rounds – Title: “Achieving Equity in the Recruitment of Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellows” | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Evans Seminar Room (Hybrid)

Thursday, March 21

Biomedical Genetics – Race, Ancestry, Both, or Neither? Applying the National Academy’s Framework on Population Descriptors in Research | 10AM | E201 Classroom, Evans Building
Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds – “DEIA Inclusive Hiring and Section Goals for 2024”| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Evans Seminar Room
Vascular Biology Seminar Series – “Indigenous American Voices in STEM” | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Zoom
Gastroenterology Grand Rounds – Speaker: Sandra Quezada, MD | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | 85 E. Concord St., 8th Floor Conference Room (Hybrid)

Friday, March 22

Geriatrics “Wellness for Trainees” Grand Rounds – Gopal Yadavalli, MD | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Zoom