Honoring Pride Month
The Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital commemorates Pride Month by reaffirming our commitment to serving, supporting, and empowering our own LGBTQIA+ community.
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In the United States, 28% of the population self identifies as Black, Latinx, Native Alaskan, Native American, or Native Hawaiian, but only 8% of U.S. medical faculty are from these racial and ethnic groups. Physician diversity improves our ability to be the best in clinical care, education, innovation, and research because diversity drives excellence.
Guillermo Sanchez, MD and Lloyd Ferguson, MD were the first Latino and African American residents in the Mass General Department of Medicine's Internal Medicine Residency Program, respectively. In 2016 the Department of Medicine established the Sanchez and Ferguson Research Faculty Award with the goal of enhancing a diverse research faculty to drive excellence, and in recognition of an unmet need for funding and mentorship support for junior faculty at vulnerable points in their careers. This award aims to support research faculty from underrepresented in medicine backgrounds. The Mass General Department of Medicine follows the definition of underrepresented in medicine and biomedical sciences of the National Institute of Health and the Association of American Medical Colleges. The intent of this program is to support the careers of promising young Department of Medicine basic and clinical investigators by providing interim funding and career development support.
George A. Alba, MD
Maria Agustina Battistone, PhD
J. Sawalla Guseh, MD
Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH
The Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital commemorates Pride Month by reaffirming our commitment to serving, supporting, and empowering our own LGBTQIA+ community.
Q&A with Kinza Berical, MD, and Shannon (Xiangwei) Zhang, MD, MS, anesthesiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital, who both followed in their mothers' footsteps by pursuing a career as a physician.
In the past, the calculation of the eGFR for Black individuals could result in an overestimation of kidney function, which could delay their disease stage identification and treatment. The United Organ Sharing Network has removed the race variable in the eGFR calculation, making it race-neutral.
Personal immigration journey inspires resident to explore careers in refugee/immigrant care
Sophia Kamran, MD shares more about her experiences at Mass General and her work in the DE&I space.
This year’s Black History Month theme is Black Resistance, which gives us the opportunity to reflect on how African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression.
The Mass General CDI is one of the first academic hospital-based centers in the country dedicated to helping build a diverse community of physicians and scientists and fostering a culture of inclusion and respect.