Episodes

  • Examining Physician Gender Inequity in Medicine

    Examining Physician Gender Inequity in Medicine
    Oct 10 2023
    This edition of the Prioritizing Equity series follows recent policy adopted at the AMA’s House of Delegates meeting in June 2022 as panelists will discuss gender equity in medicine and how COVID-19 has exacerbated experiences for people identifying as women. The episode will also explore both historical and present inequities in medical education, employment, and leadership opportunities. Panelists Dr. Tania Jenkins is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of North Caroli both historical and present inequities in medical education, employment, and leadership opportunities. na-Chapel Hill and a faculty research fellow at UNC's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.  Twitter: @TaniaMJenkins Jasmine Brown is a 4th year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, a Rhodes Scholar and the author of TWICE AS HARD: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians from the Civil War to the 21st Century.   Dr. Deena Shin McRae, MD, is the Associate Vice President of Academic Health Sciences for University of California and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at UC Irvine School of Medicine  Moderator Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank
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    23 mins
  • The SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling: The Cost to the Physician workforce and Historically Minoritized Communities

    The SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling: The Cost to the Physician workforce and Historically Minoritized Communities
    Aug 16 2023
    This week's episode of Prioritizing Equity will discuss how the recent affirmative action ruling undermines policy dedicated to increasing physician diversity, which is vital to the healthcare ecosystem and will have negative implications towards increasing medical career opportunities for marginalized and minoritized people as well as for patients and communities.  Panelists Jessica Faiz, MD, MSHPM, Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCLA, Core Investigator with the VA Center for the Study of Healthcare, Innovation, Implementation, and Policy @im_jesssayinn   Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor for Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, @merlinc2   David Henderson, MD, VP Equity, Diversity and Belonging in Medical Education American Medical Association   Moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD, Vice President of Health Equity Data and Research, American Medical Association, Center for Health Equity and Professor of Sociology, DePaul University - Twitter: @fernandodemaio  
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    45 mins
  • Anchor Strategy — A Place-Based Approach for Health Equity

    Anchor Strategy — A Place-Based Approach for Health Equity
    Aug 16 2023

    This week's edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy — a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study and model.

    Panelists

    • Ayesha Jaco, Executive Director, West Side United – Twitter: @WSUnitedChi
    • Adam Alonso, Chief Executive Officer of BUILD Chicago
    • David Ansell, MD, MPH, SVP, Community Health Equity Rush University Medical Center 

    Moderator

    • Diana Derige, DrPH, Vice President, Health Equity Strategy, American Medical Association, Center for Health Equity - Twitter: @double_DRPH 

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    50 mins
  • Health Care Planning and Caring for Patients Experiencing Houselessness

    Health Care Planning and Caring for Patients Experiencing Houselessness
    Jun 14 2023
    In this edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing houselessness and discuss the importance of equitable, holistic, cost effective, evidence-based discharge planning. Panelists Margot Kushel, MD, Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center – Twitter: @MKushel   Stephen Brown, MSW, LCSW, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences SystemDenise De Las Nueces, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program  Yinan Lan, MD, Homeless Health Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals   Dez Martinez, Founder of We Are Not Invisible and member of the BHHI Lived Expertise Advisory Board: @weinvisible  Moderator Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH, Director of Social Justice Education and Implementation, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @EClevelandMD    Subscribe to the Prioritizing Equity podcast: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/ama-podcasts#ama-prioritizing-equity Learn more: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Embracing Public Safety and Health for Improved Firearm Violence Prevention

    Embracing Public Safety and Health for Improved Firearm Violence Prevention
    Apr 21 2023

    Firearm violence is a public health crisis. In this week's Prioritizing Equity panel, we explore the work of physicians in health systems and beyond in the realms of public health, public safety, and firearm violence prevention.

    Panel:

    • Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, Incoming Dean of Yale School of Public Health – Twitter: @meganranney

    • Eric Reinhart, MD, PGY2 psychiatry resident at Northwestern University – Twitter: @_Eric_Reinhart

    • Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, FACS is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine – Twitter: @JosephSakran

    • Dr. Brian Williams, MD, Trauma & Acute Care Surgeon in Dallas, TX – Twitter: @BHWilliamsMD

    Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank 

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    The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct
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    45 mins
  • Advocating for Change in Native Health Policy: For Us, By Us

    Advocating for Change in Native Health Policy: For Us, By Us
    Feb 6 2023

    In this edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, join medical student organizers and policy advocates as they discuss increasing access to care in native communities and improving care within the Indian Health Services through health policy.

    Panel:

    • Tamee Livermont [Tam/Me - Liv/er/Mont], MPH, Oglala Lakota Medical Student, UMN Medical School
    • Alec Calac [Al/Ek- Cal/Ek], MD/PHD Candidate, UC San Diego, Association of Native American Medical Students
    • Ashton Glover-Gatewood [Ash/ton-Glow/Ver-Gatewood], MPH, OMS-3, Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at Cherokee Nation 

    Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, Chief Health Equity Officer, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association - Twitter: @DrAlethaMaybank 

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    47 mins
  • Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety Peer Network

    Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety Peer Network
    Oct 24 2022

    Learn more about the AMA Peer Network: https://ama-assn.org/peer-network

    In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President at the AMA Center for Health Equity speaks with participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety program on their strategies to start operationalizing equity into their quality and safety operations.

    Panel:

    • Aderonke Akingbola, MD, MMM, AGAF, CPE Vice President, Medical Affairs, Ochsner Health 
    • Judy C. Washington, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Atlantic Medical Group

    Moderator: Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President, Equitable Health Systems, AMA Center for Health Equity

    Topics discussed in this episode:

    • Introduction
    • Introduction of the panelists
    • Equity at the intersection of health care quality and safety
    • Addressing inequities through quality and safety reporting
    • Peer Network framework
    • Harm event reporting
    • Creating psychological safe spaces
    • Building teams to improve safety and equity
    • The challenges of transforming the health care system
    • Harm event case studies
    • Successful outcomes from this work
    • Lessons for health systems from the Peer Network

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    45 mins
  • Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right

    Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right
    Aug 8 2022

    Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts.

    Panel: 

    • Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law
    • Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH—President and CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
    • Krishna Upadhya, MD, MPH—Vice President, Quality Care and Health Equity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

    Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association

    Topics discussed in this episode:

    • Introduction 
    • Introduction of the panelists 
    • Policing and criminalization of reproductive health care 
    • Abortion access and inequities in health care 
    • The end of Roe v Wade and a new legal frontier for abortion rights 
    • The impact of the overturning of Roe and access to abortions 
    • Substandard medical care being mandated by states 
    • How the legal system can provide rights & access to health services 
    • Abortion, reproductive justice, & human rights 
    • Finding hope in health care justice work

    The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct
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    34 mins