Webinar: Microaggressions and Implicit Biases in Healthcare
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Part 1 of CHI’s 10-Part Series: From Researcher to Patient - Making Clinical Trials More Diverse
About the webinar
This educational program explores microaggressions and biases in the healthcare industry, including how they impact both patient health outcomes as well as employees of healthcare organizations. Microaggressions and implicit biases in the clinical care setting have a detrimental impact on patients’ evaluation of needed services, health outcomes, patients’ perception of the healthcare system, and overall quality of care. A recent study found that 73% of white medical students held “at least one false belief about the biological differences between races.” In another example, the 2015 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report found that Black, Latin, American Indian, and Alaskan Native individuals receive worse care than White individuals for approximately 40% of quality measures. Moreover, microaggressions and implicit biases in the workplace impact employee productivity, organizational development, and external perception, among other negative outcomes. A 2019 Deloitte study found that “whether based on gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability or military status, more than 60% of respondents reported a presence of bias in their workplace.” Additionally, 70% of Black physicians and 69% of Asian physicians have experienced patient bias. This educational program brings together a distinguished group of industry experts to discuss strategies for patients, providers, teams, and organizations to address, reduce, and ultimately eliminate microaggressions.
Webinar Panelists
Moderator: Dr. Neelum Aggarwal, MD
Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Neelum T. Aggarwal, MD, is the Chief Diversity Officer at American Medical Women’s Association and Associate Professor, Departments of Neurological Sciences and the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. She is the Senior Neurologist for the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC), Research Director at the Rush Heart Center for Women, and serves as the Principal Investigator and Site Principal Investigator for multiple NIA funded research studies and consortia led clinical trials. Her work focuses on how sex, gender and social determinants of health are associated with risk, detection and treatment of cognitive changes associated with dementia. Dr. Aggarwal is a long-standing voice for community based research, clinical trial participation, public health initiatives, both in Chicago and nationally. She serves as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), and was past chair of the Governing Council of the American Medical Association- Women's Physician Section.
Currently, she co chairs the Inclusion, Diversity and Education in Alzheimer's Disease - Outreach and Policy subcommittee and the Advisory Group on Risk Evidence Education for Dementia. As the Strategic Advisor for the Science Runway, a Chicago Innovation Mentor (CIM) and past National Chair for the Women in Bio Mentoring, Advisors and Peers Committee, she is uniquely positioned to work with diverse groups of colleagues, mentor and sponsor women and men in the medical, life sciences and STEM sectors. She completed her medical degree from the Rosalind Franklin University - Chicago Medical School, completed her neurology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and completed an aging and neurodegenerative disorders fellowship at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center.
Ms. J. Mori Johnson, MA
Ambassador Engagement Director & Health Equity Liaison, American Medical Association
J. Mori Johnson is currently the Ambassador Engagement Director & Health Equity Steering Committee member at the American Medical Association (AMA), where she has been employed for the last 25 years. Aside from her professional roles at the AMA, Mori enjoys volunteering and giving back by serving on the Black Employees & Allies Network as a Sr. Advisor, being the Finance Coordinator on the InspirAsian employee recourse group as well as being a member of the AMA Wellness Committee and founded the AMA Green Team several years ago.
Mori earned a Master’s in Communications at DePaul University and a Bachelor’s in Linguistics and Communications from Rutgers University. She thoroughly enjoys traveling, the art of storytelling, gourmet cooking, and is a self-identified foodie. Mori resides in the South Loop of Chicago with her husband Robb Gipson and their rescue cattle dog, Rufus.
Dr. Carl E. Lambert, Jr., MD, FAAFP
Director, Rush Family Medicine Leadership Program, Rush University
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Carl Earl Lambert, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Rush University Medical College in Chicago, IL. He is involved with academic medicine as well as mentorship, recruitment, and retention of underrepresented minority students into medicine. He enjoys providing thorough, compassionate, and whole-person continuity and preventative care to people from all communities and walks of life in the Rush University Family Physicians group.
Aside from clinical practice, Dr. Lambert remains very involved in the Rush community in several capacities, including being a committed and engaged clinical teacher and preceptor, a small-group clinician educator and facilitator in Rush’s integrated curriculum, director of the Rush Family Medicine Leadership Program, director of the service-learning curriculum, an executive member of the medical school’s Admissions Executive Committee and Rush University’s Racial Justice Action Committee, as well as faculty advisor for both the Rush Christian Fellowship as well as for minority medical students in the Rush chapter of the Student National Medical Association.
Dr. Lambert is a member of the American Association of Family Physicians, a diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine, a member of the Christian Community Health Fellowship, an academic advisor for the National Medical Fellowship Minority Primary Care Leadership Program, and the Chicago Area Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program. His special interests include community-based medical services, integrating faith into medicine, child & adolescent wellness, family planning, and men’s health. He is happily married to his lovely wife Adrienne, and remains engaged in his home church, Bellevue Baptist Church, in Chicago, Illinois.
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