The Diversity Center of Excellence (DCoE), the education core of the Cornell Center for Health Equity (CCHEq), builds on Weill Cornell’s long-standing commitment to diversity by working with campus and community partners to increase the number of minority physicians in the workforce and in academic medicine. One of the ways the DCoE aims to increase the number of underrepresented minority physicians trained by Weill Cornell Medicine is through the expansion of faculty development programs to support underrepresented minority faculty. In fall 2019, CCHEq and the DCoE launched the Scholars in Health Equity program, which includes an Education and Research track for faculty.
Research Scholars in Health Equity
The Research Scholars in Health Equity program supports the development and refinement of novel and innovative ideas into fundable research projects in health or healthcare disparities. The program pairs aspiring faculty researchers with mentors who have expertise in health equity research in order to help participants prepare competitive pilot project proposals for future funding. The program will support the development and refinement of novel and innovative ideas into fundable research projects in health or healthcare disparities.
2019 Research Scholars in Health Equity
Pon-Hsiu Yeh, MD | Department of Emergency Medicine | “Health Disparities Among Chinese Americans Presenting to the Emergency Department”
Rachel Kowalsky, MD, MPH and Maria Lame, MD | Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine | “Can a Narrative Medicine Curriculum Impact Implicit Bias Scores for Emergency Medicine Doctors and Nurses?”
Anyanate G. Jack MD, MPH | Department of Medicine and Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism | “Exploring Disparities in the Patterns of Utilization of Glucose Monitoring Devices at an Outpatient Endocrine Clinic”
Marcus Lambert, PhD and Joy Howell, MD | Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics | “Assessing Campus Climate on Diversity and Equity”
Iris Navarro-Millán, MD | Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology | “The Moving Well Interventions”
2020 Research Scholars in Health Equity
Onyinye Balogun, MD | Department of Radiation Oncology | “Trends in Predictors of Disparities among Women Diagnosed with Gynecologic Cancers in New York City from 1976 to 2016”
Soudabeh Givrad, MD & Gail Ross, PhD | Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics | “Exploring racial/ethnic Disparities in Parents’ Readiness for Discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)”
Maria Lame, MD | Department of Emergency Medicine | “Evaluating the Impact of a Virtual Antiracism and Social Justice Curriculum on Emergency Medicine Faculty and Trainees”
Jorge Monge, MD | Department of Medicine | “Understanding Racial Disparities in Adherence to Guideline Recommended Therapy for Multiple Myeloma”
Faculty Scholars in Health Equity
Faculty Scholars in Health Equity is a health equity education training program. The goal of this program is to generate a cadre of teaching faculty as institutional leaders in the development, implementation, and evaluation of curricula designed to improve the integration of training in health equity and cultural competence across the entire spectrum of medical education at Weill Cornell Medicine. The cohorts of the Faculty Scholars in Health Equity program is made up of faculty involved in pre-medical, clinical, and postgraduate level education throughout the NewYork-Presbyterian sphere.
Program Director: Erica Phillips, MD, MS
Click HERE for the Program Brochure
Click HERE for the Application Form
2019 Faculty Scholars in Health Equity
Kemi Babagbemi, MD | Department of Radiology
Andrea Card, MD, MPH | Department of Medicine | Division of General Internal Medicine
Gwendolyne Jack, MD | Department of Medicine | Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism
Laura Kim, MD | Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology | Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery
Leslie Hayes, MD | Department of Pediatrics | Division of Adolescent Medicine
Oyinkan Marquis, MD | Department of Pediatrics | Division of Pediatric Neurology & Epilepsy
Amanda Ramsdell, MD | Department of Medicine | Division of General Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine
David Scales, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine | Division of General Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine
Jessica Zonana, MD | Department of Psychiatry
2020 Faculty Scholars in Health Equity
Mark Curato, DO | Department of Emergency Medicine
Wing Kay Fok, MD | Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Christine Lynn Joyce, MD | Department of Pediatrics | Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Lynda Nwabuobi, MD | Department of Neurology | Movement Disorders
Tracy Paul, MD | Department of Medicine | Division of Cardiology
Lourdes Sanso, MD | Department of Medicine | Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $2,719,201 with 10% percentage financed by the Cornell Center for Health Equity and Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Medicine. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
