2024 & 2025 DoM DEIA Week Recap
2025 DEIA Week Recap
Monday, March 10th
Poster Showcase + Oral Presentations | Hiebert Lounge (Lunch will be served) | 10:30AM-1:30PM
10:30AM-11:30AM – Oral Presentations
11:30AM-1:30PM – Poster Showcase
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 11th
Panel + Discussion | Hiebert Lounge (Breakfast will be served) | 8:00AM-10:30AM
Title: Molding a Culture: Turning Intention into Action
- Breakfast will be served beforehand from 8:00AM-8:30AM
- Panel: 8:30AM-9:15 AM (hybrid)
- Breakout discussions: 9:15AM-10:30 AM
- Influencing Your Workplace Environment
- Building Inclusive Leadership in the Workplace
- Engaging Your Community
Call to Action: By the end of the day, you will have brainstormed at least three actionable ways to promote DEIA in your daily life (e.g., in the workplace or community) and established one new collaboration or relationship from this event.
Wednesday, March 12th
Wellness Wednesday | Evans Conference Rooms | 11:00AM-3:00PM
10:00AM-10:30AM: Virtual Workshop: Managing Change and Uncertainty with BU FSAO
12:00PM-2:00PM: Food & Nutrition Pre-ARC Lunch: “Food as a Unifier & Cultural Humility”
12:00PM-2PM: Acupuncture
12:00PM-2PM: Puppies & Lunch!
2:00PM-3:00PM: Learn to Make Paper Cranes with Mike Galatis
Thursday, March 13th
DEIA Week Celebration | Hiebert Lounge | 4:30PM-6:30PM
Join us for art, food, drinks and more!
Friday, March 14th
Grand Rounds | Keefer Auditorium | 12:00PM-1:00PM
“Conversations on Accessibility”
Presented by:
Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute
Massachusetts General Hospital
Section Events
March 11th
Infectious Diseases Fellow Seminar – Topic: Inequities in HIV | 8:00AM | CT 2117 (Hybrid)
March 12th
Rheumatology Journal Club – Topic: health disparities and the risk of end-organ lupus within a multiethnic cohort | 8:00AM | Evans 5 conference room (Hybrid) – Article Information
GIM Grand Rounds – “A Legacy of Cruelty to Sexual and Gender Minority Groups” Presented by: Dr. Carl Streed Jr. & Jessica Halem, MBA | 8:00AM | Crosstown 2128 (Hybrid)
Cardiology Grand Rounds – “Health Equity and Cardiovascular Disease” | 12:00PM | Collamore 8-D805 (Hybrid)
CBM Guest Lecture – Presented by Dr. Eugene Manley, Jr. | 3:00PM | Zoom
March 13th
Hematology & Medical Oncology Section Meeting – Topic: Gender Sensitivity Training | 12:00PM | FGH 1 (Hybrid)
Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds – “Designing Workplaces to Advance Gender Equity” | 12:00PM | Evans 112A
March 14th
Geriatrics Grand Rounds – “Gender Informed and Affirming Care” | 9:00-10:30AM | Zoom
Pulmonary Research-In-Progress Seminar–“Advancing Pulmonary Health Justice” Presented by: Isaretta L. Riley, MD, Duke University | 9:00AM | X715 (Hybrid)
2024 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
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