A look back at the Department of Medicine’s 2024 Health Equity Day

The Department of Medicine’s RYSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council hosted the 4th annual Health Equity Day on May 21, 2024, as a part of Emory School of Medicine’s Diversity & Inclusion Week. The department-wide event aimed to raise awareness and encourage action around the systemic health disparities that exist across racial, ethnic, cultural, and social groups. The event also recognized interventions and research across the department centered on health equity. The virtual conference includes poster presentations, compelling narratives, a case competition, keynote address, and awards.

More than 180 members of the DOM and Emory community attended to share compelling new findings, facilitate scientific exchange, and identify opportunities for collaboration.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

 

 

 

 

 

This year’s keynote address, “Empowering Emerging Voices” was delivered by three emerging leaders in their fields, LaShyra Nolen, a 2024 MD/MPP candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School; Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd, emergency medicine resident at Yale School of Medicine; and Darshali Vyas, MD, a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital.

ABSTRACTS

A total of 101 abstracts were submitted for consideration. These came from our Emory community members in the DOM, as well as departments across the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and Rollins School of Public Health. View the 2024 Abstract Book here.

POSTER PRESENTATION & AWARD WINNERS

Congratulations to the 2024 Health Equity poster presentation and award winners!

• Outstanding Scientific Citation RYSE Award Winner
  Boghuma Titanji:”Effectiveness of Smallpox Vaccination to Prevent Mpox in Military Personnel”
• Clinical Quality Poster Category:
  Emily Wright; Shubham Patel; Annie Ferrell; Hope Iyiewuare; Anita Deshpande: “Improving Time for Operative Repair for Facial Trauma Patients by the Otolaryngology Service at Grady Memorial Hospital”
• Community, Advocacy, and Policy Poster Category:
  Amy Zeidan, Mark Spencer, Nishi KuAmy Zeidan, Mark Spencer, Nishi Kumarmar: “Policing, Incarceration, and Health: A Novel Curriculum for Medical Students”
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Professional Development Poster Category:
  Jada Bussey-Jones, Sheryl Heron, Kimberly Manning, Danielle Jones, Monique Rainey: “Increase in promotion actions immediately following a URiM faculty development program”
• Education Poster Category:
  Sarah Samaranayake, Nicolas Quiroga-Gutierrez, Valentina Larrivey, Arie Szomstein, Maria Elena Cunningham, Hallie Stevens, Mary Cate Walsh, Emilia Grill, Susana Alfonso: “Portal de Salud: interprofessional education through a student-run health screening clinic”
• Research Poster Category:
  Goeto Dantes, Swathi Raikot, Afrin Jahan, Nikolay Barykov, Jonathan Beus, MD, Hanna Alemayehu, Allison F. Linden: “Childhood opportunity index and pediatric gastrostomy tube outcomes”

THANK YOU

Special thanks to A’Kristionna King, Program Coordinator – DEI/HR Initiatives, and the RYSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council for organizing this event! The RYSE leadership team would also like to thank all faculty, staff, and trainee volunteers for their assistance in both the planning and execution of this departmental initiative.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Click here to watch the keynote address, poster presentations, and narrative pre-event recordings on the DOM YouTube channel.