Honoring Black History Month
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.
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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
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.
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Massachusetts General Hospital is proud to announce that Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, senior vice president for Equity and Community Health and Sumner M. Redstone Chair in Health Equity, is being recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of 2022’s Top Diversity Leaders.
Mass General has received a revolutionary gift of $50 million from Robert K. Kraft and The Kraft Family Foundation to address healthcare disparities caused by race, ethnicity, geography, and economic status.
Olivia Okereke, MD, MS, inaugural director of the newly established Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Racial Equity and Justice, is leading anti-racism efforts in the department, the psychiatry field, psychiatric research and more.
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.