Medical Center Hour | A Healing ARC for Hospital Inequities

3.18.2022

Medical Center Hour | A Healing ARC for Hospital Inequities

You are invited to participate in the next Medical Center Hour, "A Healing ARC for Hospital Inequities: From Institutional Racism to Reparative Justice" on Wednesday, March 23, from noon-1 p.m.

Racism is an ongoing public health crisis, and racial inequities in health, many of which are institutionally derived, are increasingly documented. Nationwide, little progress on these racial health inequities has been achieved to date, and a significant need persists for evidence-based interventions. From their experience analyzing institutional racism in heart failure admissions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Drs. Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse designed Healing ARC — acknowledgment, redress, and closure — as a model to practically redress racial inequities in healthcare delivery with the involvement of impacted community members. Dr. Wispelwey will discuss the Brigham team’s journey from research to action, the backlash this provoked, and the promise of race-conscious and reparative approaches to address inequities in medicine.

A Healing ARC for Hospital Inequities:
From Institutional Racism to Reparative Justice
Wednesday, March 23
noon-1 p.m.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82470186796

Co-sponsored by the Diversity and Community Engagement Offices of UVA School of Medicine and UVA HealthSpeakers include Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH, Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Tracy Downs, MD; Scott Heysell, MD; and Sula Mazimba, MD; panelists. Gregory C. Townsend, MD, moderator.

Dr. Bram Wispelwey is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is co-founder of Health for Palestine, a community organizing initiative in Palestinian refugee camps that seeks to maximize wellness and address health barriers via social accompaniment and creative integration with existing facilities. Bram’s research, education, and implementation efforts focus on anti-racist strategies to address hospital inequities, community health worker impact, and settler colonial determinants of health. Before the start of his medical career, he pursued LGBTQ-rights activism, which informs his health approach at the bedside and in advocacy. Bram is Senior Technical Lead with Partners In Health United States and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity.

Dr. Greg Townsend was appointed Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Medicine in 2014. He shares general responsibility for promoting the educational mission of the School and provides leadership, information, and counsel to students, faculty, and staff to facilitate a positive experience for all as part of a diverse community. He co-leads the School of Medicine’s Diversity Consortium and Diversity Steering Committee, and is a member of its Admissions Committee. He also sits on the University-wide Diversity Council.

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Dr. Mazimba has declared a relationship with Myokardia. Drs. Wispelwey, Downs, Heysell, and Townsend have declared no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services related to this presentation. Medical Center Hour planning group members M.D. Childress PhD; R.J. Bonnie LLB; R. Carpenter DrNP; J.F. Childress PhD; M.F. Marshall PhD; J. Mutter MD MA; K. Reid PhD RN FNP-C CNL; L. Shepherd JD have no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services, while R. Dillingham MD MPH reports interests with Gilead and Warm Health Technology Inc. UVA Office of Continuing Medical Education faculty and staff have no personal/professional financial relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services.

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