4th Annual Stanford Medicine Diversity and Inclusion Forum

Welcome
8:00AM - 8:10AM
Carmin M Powell, MD
Lahia Yemane, MD
Reena Parada Thomas, MD
Lloyd B. Minor, MD

Beyond Racial Justice Performance: Understanding the Role of Reflection, Context, Action, and Systemic Change
8:10AM - 9:10AM
Diane T. Chin, JD

How can doctors and lawyers work to achieve social change that advances racial justice? Many legal and medical professionals are drawn to their work from a goal of service and community impact.  Many of the methods for instructing and training medical and law students as well as entrenched systems of inequity can shift that focus.  New models in training lawyers to serve communities, develop critical analyses to support social movements, and understand how discrimination and trauma impact the lives of clients provide an interesting focal point to discuss how doctors and lawyers can meet the racial justice reckoning that is calling for a new paradigm.  Doctors’ patients and racial justice lawyers’ clients confront social determinants that impact their health, their ability to exercise their civil rights, and to access life-sustaining programs and services.  The current the experiences of discrimination and violence for Asian Americans, Pacific Island Americans, South Asian Americans, and Southeast Asian Americans provide an example of how entrenched racism and systemic failures call for medical and legal professionals to bring their expertise to move beyond racial justice performance.

Break
9:10AM - 9:15AM

A Juggling Act: Preserving Individual Cultural Identity while Assimilating into the Culture of Healthcare
9:15AM - 10:30AM
Jennifer Alyono, MD
Ryan T Ash, MD, PhD
Michelle Brooks, CTACC
Camilo Cortesi, MD
Nancy Yvonne Wang, MD
Kelly Foster, MD
Armando Steve Huaringa, MD
Lauren Klingman, MD
Elizabeth Nguyen, MD
Sara Getuhan Tedla, MD
Tanuja Yalamarti, MD

Have you ever felt like an outsider at work? Is it challenging to fit in with your peers and colleagues at times? Were you ever in a situation at work when your colleagues made you uncomfortable, and you had to navigate the pros and cons of letting it go or speaking up? In this interactive workshop, we will define individual cultural identity and cultural assimilation, within the context of the healthcare setting. Through this reflective and interactive workshop, we will give examples to assist in recognizing the pressure to culturally assimilate for advancement and discover tools to foster an environment that is inclusive to all cultural identities.

A Seat at the Table: Empowering the Underrepresented through Mentorship
9:15AM - 10:30AM
Rania Awaad, MD
Belinda ShenYu Bandstra, MD
Chrisoula Cheronis, MD
Oluseyi A Fayanju, MD
Evangelina Molina, MD
Esmeralda Elisa Morales, MD
Viviana Ruiz, MD
Gabriela Spencer, MD, MSC
Paige Wolstencroft, MD
James Xie, MD

Our workshop aims to elevate everyone to a seat at the table through effective mentorship of underrepresented individuals within medicine. “A seat at the table” is defined as having one’s voice heard and feeling empowered to evoke change and create influence. Recognizing that within medicine we are often simultaneously the mentor and the mentee, our overarching goal is to help individuals both grow into successful mentors and seek out successful mentorship.

Healing Microaggressions through Peer-Centered Interventions: An Experiential Workshop
9:15AM - 10:30AM
Yewande Alimi, MD, MHS
Catherine Johnson, Other
Matilde Fredrickson, DO
Felipe D Perez, MD
Kiran Kaur Khush, MD
Chih-Kwang Sung, MD
Michael Martyna, MD
Travis Miller, MD
Emma Rose Miller-Bedell, MD
Ketetha Olengue, MD
Ana Pacheco-Navarro, MD

Microaggressions weighing you down? Have you witnessed a microaggression in progress? Would you have liked to share the experience and your response in a supportive environment? Microaggressions can have a profound impact on the mental and physical health of medical trainees. Support groups can offer a powerful way to help process these traumatic experiences while also building community. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to learn about and experience the benefits of peer- and faculty-led support groups and design the best one for you and your department.

JEDI: May your workforce be with you - Why we need diversity, and how to get
9:15AM - 10:30AM
Al'ai Alvarez, MD
Danielle Atibalentja, MD, PhD
Leandra A Barnes, MD
Adjoa Boateng Evans, MD, MPH
Michael Chavarria, MD
Anne Durstenfeld, MD
Joyce J Hsu, MD, MS
Valerie Peicher, MD
Kav Rao, MD
Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD

Stanford Medicine’s healthcare workforce does not reflect our nation’s diverse population. We know that patients have better outcomes when cared for by healthcare workers from similar backgrounds. This workshop will explore how to overcome the challenges of increasing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) efforts in training programs by providing useful tools to bridge the gap between our values and the current reality.

 

Words That Make You Go hmmm: Building Skills for Intentional Communication
9:15AM - 10:30AM
Eva Archer
Michelle R Arteaga, MS, MHA
Annie Berens, MD
Luis Fernandez, MD
Mariame Fofana, MD
Carrie Johnson, MBA
Chelsea Young, MD
Sara Zadeh, MD
Peggy Kim Han, MD

Mindfulness of language is a tool for members of healthcare teams to remain objective and advocate for their patients. It is the responsibility of all members of clinical teams to cultivate an environment that embodies diversity, strives for equity, and offers experiences of inclusion. There is an abundance of literature supporting the notion that communication is vital for health equity, clinical environments, and positive patient outcomes. The words we choose to communicate with have the power to create experiences of inclusion and exclusion and influence clinical outcomes.

Break
10:30AM - 10:45AM

Creating an inclusive and effective mentor-mentee relationship
10:45AM - 12:00PM
William Bassett, MD
Wendy Caceres, MD
Eduardo Contijoch, MD, PhD
Chiazotam Ekekezie, MD
Magi Ishak Gabra, MD, MS
Jessika Hurts, PsyD
Ling Jin, PhD
Andrea Jonas, MD
Derek W Smith, MD
Ken Sutha, MD, PhD
Sarah Roberts Williams, MD

 Meaningful and open mentoring relationships are key drivers to career as well as personal success. Differences in background, identity, and experiences can pose difficult challenges to establish this relationship. Join us in this session where we learn how to enrich the mentor-mentee experience by fostering connection through difference.

 

Moral Injury: How it affects us and tools to combat it
10:45AM - 12:00PM
Antonette Ajayi, MD, MPH
Dora Alvarez, MD
Connor Arquette, MD
Becky Leanne Blankenburg, MD
Eugene J Carragee, MD
Baraka Dechelle Floyd, MD
Bernadett R. Mahanay, BA
Alice Mao, MD
Connie Martin Sears, MD
Tram Nguyen, MD
Anthony Sawyer, MD, MPH

Moral injury often goes unnoticed and its effects under appreciated. The accumulation of these instances often drives us toward a tipping point.  Join us as we seek to define, identify, and recognize moral injury.  Participants will develop tools and practice ways to combat moral injury to create a more inclusive, equitable environment for themselves and others.

Navigating Diverse Mentoring Relationships: How to right the ship when it's going off-course?
10:45AM - 12:00PM
Magali Fassiotto
Alberto Furzan, MD
Alexandria Hicks-Nelson, DVM, MS
Chioma Madubata, MD, PhD
Andrew Martella, MD
Stephanie Melchor, MD
Christopher Poitevien, PhD
Catherine Shir, MD
Takudzwa Shumba, MD, MPH
Amelia Watkins, MD
Aslam Khan, DO

In this workshop we will dive into what makes for a great mentor-mentee relationship when navigating our differences. The lack of diverse representation in mentoring roles is often a barrier to career advancement in academic medicine. Join our session to explore how to promote productive mentor-mentee conversations across social identities and create inclusive spaces to ensure mentoring relationships stays on course.

Say My Name: Understanding the Power of Names, Correct Pronunciation, and Personal Narratives
10:45AM - 12:00PM
Anaid Atasuntseva, PhD
Eve Ayeroff, MD
Beth Michelle Beadle, MD
Kiki Mitchell Boyd, MD
Joon Chang, MD
Salma Dali, MD
Tamara Jones Dunn, MD
Malorie Holmes, MD
Christina Johnson, MD
Megha Shankar, MD
Abdullah Terkawi, MD

This workshop focuses on the importance and meaning of names - their history, meaning, and correct pronunciation. Participants will examine the importance of name pronunciation in identity affirmation, illustrate the historical instances of racism that contribute to name mispronunciation, employ tools to engage in productive conversation around name pronunciation, and apply name affirmation tools to clinical settings, medical education, and the workplace. We will use breakout groups to discuss cases as applied to the workplace and healthcare in particular, creating room for vibrant discussion around this important topic.

We are not throwing away our shot: Coming together to build a community engagement toolkit to address COVID-19 health disparities and vaccination inequities
10:45AM - 12:00PM
Natalia E Birgisson, MD
Irogue Igbinosa, MD
Sara Kibrom, MD
Nancy Morioka-Douglas, MD
Jorge A Munoz Pineda, MD
Srav Puranam, MD,ScM
Travis Lee Reece-Nguyen, MD, MPH
Ashley Rider, MD
Tatum Sohlberg, MD
Allyson Spence, MD
Emily Whitgob, MD

This workshop aims to prepare healthcare providers to better serve communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and address issues surrounding vaccine access. We will review the historical mistreatment of Black and Hispanic/Latinx communities, discuss present day COVID-19 health disparities, and identify equity frameworks necessary for conversations on vaccine access and distribution. Our goal is to provide each clinician with tangible tools for anti-racist patient and community engagement to close the gap of COVID-19 health inequities.

Break
12:00PM - 12:10PM

PRIDEnet & The PRIDE Study: Conducting Community-Engaged Digital Research with, by, and for LGBTQ+ Communitities
12:10PM - 1:00PM
Juno Obedin-Maliver, MD
Mitchell R. Lunn, MD

Break
1:00PM - 1:15PM

Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians: Welcome Remarks
1:15PM - 1:30PM
Lahia Yemane, MD
Reena Parada Thomas, MD

Academic Medicine Career Roles & Responsibilities
1:30PM - 2:25PM
Leah Monique Backhus, MD

Break
2:25PM - 2:30PM

Educational Scholarship
2:30PM - 3:25PM
Becky Leanne Blankenburg, MD

Research Scholarship
2:30PM - 3:25PM
Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD

Service Scholarship
2:30PM - 3:25PM
Nancy Morioka-Douglas, MD

Break
3:25PM - 3:30PM

How to Find an Academic Position after Training
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Ann Caroline Fisher, MD

How to Find an Academic Residency
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Tamara Jones Dunn, MD

Networking Activity and Closing Remarks
4:30PM - 5:00PM