Medical Center Hour Programs on Diversity, Disability, and Access: 2006-2015

Medical Center Hour programs on diversity, disability, and access: 2006-2015

20 September 2006 The Vivian Pinn Award Lecture CLOSING THE DIVERSITY GAP IN MEDICINE Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., Past President, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington DC Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD Diversifying America’s physician workforce and preparing doctors to practice with cultural sensitivity became major goals of the Association of American Medicine Colleges during Dr. Jordan Cohen’s 12 yeas as AAMC president. Have we made much progress? What are the greatest challenges to closing the diversity gap? What are individual medical schools doing to promote diversity? Co-presented with the Center on Health Disparities

11 October 2006 END-OF-LIFE CARE FOR THE POOR Gregory Gramelspacher, M.D., Center for Bioethics, Indiana University, Indianapolis IN Rebecca Dillingham, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Global Health, UVA For patients with means and access, care at the end of life often involves withdrawal of aggressive interventions in favor of more modest measures controlling symptoms and assuring comfort. What about care for dying persons who are impoverished and have never enjoyed access even to basic health services? What should end-of-life care look like for the poor in U.S. inner cities or third-world countries? Co-presented with the Center for Global Health and the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life

24 January 2007 RACE-BASED THERAPEUTICS M. Gregg Bloche, J.D., M.D., Georgetown University School of Law M. Norman Oliver, M.D., Family Medicine and Center on Health Disparities, UVA A new generation of pharmaceuticals seeks to take account of biologic variations that distinguish subpopulations crudely denoted as racial groups. For example, in 2005, the FDA approved BiDil to treat heart failure in black patients. While identifying genetic variations and developing targeted therapies are laudable research goals, it is crucial to consider the risks—social as well as medical—of using racial categories when thinking about disease and creating and marketing drugs. Co-presented with the Department of Public Health Sciences, the Institute for Practical Ethics, and the Center on Health Disparities, UVA

14 February 2007 REFRAMING DISABILITY: NEW WAYS OF SEEING AND REPRESENTING DISABILITY Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ph.D., Women's Studies, Emory University, Atlanta GA Walt S. Davis, M.D., Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Center for Biomedical Ethics, UVA How we view, define, and represent persons with disabilities says a lot about our social and cultural values, including our ideas of what's "normal." How might new portraits of disability help to reframe our understanding of ourselves, our institutions, and our views of, among other things, what constitutes health? Co-presented with the Department of English and the Bioethics Program, College of Arts & Sciences

3 October 2007 History of the Health Sciences Lecture ROOT SHOCK: THE IMPACT OF URBAN RENEWAL ON HEALTH Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York NY M. Norman Oliver, M.D., M.A., Family Medicine and Center on Health Disparities, UVA Maurice D. Cox, B.Arch., School of Architecture, UVA, and Charlottesville City Council Urban renewal projects in the U.S. in the 1950s-1970s bulldozed entire districts and traumatically displaced hundreds of African American communities, whose residents experienced "root shock" with destruction of their physical and emotional ecosystems. With this perspective on urban renewal, including projects like Charlottesville's Vinegar Hill, how might we understand better and approach differently the health status of urban African Americans and the health of our cities and neighborhoods? Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Center on Health Disparities, Student National Medical Association—UVA Chapter, and the UVA Symposium on Race and Society

17 October 2007 CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN CLINICAL CARE Farhat Moazam, M.D., Ph.D., Centre of Biomedical Ethics & Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan, and Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, UVA Fern R. Hauck, M.D., M.S., Family Medicine and International Family Medicine Clinic, UVA Pediatric surgeon and bioethicist Farhat Moazam is at home in two worlds—Pakistan, where she was born, studied medicine, and enjoyed much of her career; and the U.S., where she trained and practiced as a surgeon, then took degrees in bioethics. What qualities and skills do clinicians require to practice effectively at home—wherever home is—and to traverse cultural divides with patients, peers, and policymakers? Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life

8 October 2008 OVERCOMING LITERACY-RELATED BARRIERS TO HEALTH Michael P. Pignone, M.D., M.P.H., Departments of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC Susan Erno, M.A., Charlottesville Adult Education, Charlottesville VA Co-presented with the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library's Health Literacy Working Group

15 October 2008 CULTURE AS DISABILITY? THERAPEUTIC ITINERARIES AND THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE Ato Quayson, Ph.D., Department of English and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada John D. Arras, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Program in Bioethics, UVA Co-presented with the Department of English

7 October 2009 QUEER HEALTH CARE: LGBTI PATIENTS AND PROFESSIONALS Speakers to be announced Co-presented with UVA School of Medicine student organization qMD

11 November 2009 History of the Health Sciences Lecture OPENING DOORS: THE MAKING OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SURGEON Dorian J. Wilson MD, Department of Surgery and Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Center for Humanism in Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark NJ Wendi El Amin MD, Family Medicine and Assistant Dean for Medical Education, UVA Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Medical School Admissions, and Student National Medical Association, and in conjunction with “Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons," National Library of Medicine exhibit in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

3 February 2010 REDUCING HEALTH DISPARITIES: THE ROLE OF CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE Tawara Goode MA, National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University, Wsahington DC P. Preston Reynolds MD PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, UVA M. Norman Oliver MD MA, Department of Family Medicine and Center on Health Disparities, UVA Jonathon D. Truwit MD MBA, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, UVA

22 September 2010 The Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in Medical Humanities MEDICINE IN TRANSLATION: BRIDGING THE CULTURAL GAP BETWEEN DOCTOR AND PATIENT Danielle Ofri MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review, New York NY

27 October 2010 History of the Health Sciences and John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture SUFFERING IN SILENCE: 100 YEARS OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES Carlton Haywood PhD MA, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life and the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

14 September 2011 John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture STRETCHING TO SERVE: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS' ALTRUISM AND VULNERABILITY WHEN MEETING COMMUNITY NEEDS S. Hughes Melton MD FAAFP, President, C-Health PC, Lebanon, Virginia, and the American Academy of Family Physicians’ 2011 Family Physician of the Year Co-presented with the Department of Family Medicine

28 September 2011 John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture OUT OF THEIR WAY: SEEKING HEALTH IN AMERICA, WISE COUNTY 2009 Tim Cunningham MSN, author and actor, Charlottesville VA

5 October 2011 John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture THE SHAPE OF THE EYE: STORIES ABOUT DOWN SYNDROME George Estreich MFA, author, The Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit, Corvallis OR Ann L. Kellams MD, Department of Pediatrics, UVA

Special Medical Center Hour: Monday, 12 March 2012, 12:30 pm, Jordan Conference Center Auditorium VETERANS’ PORTRAITS, VETERANS’ STORIES: BEARING WITNESS, GIVING CARE Daniel Heyman, artist, Philadelphia PA Richard J. Bonnie LLB, School of Law, UVA Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, Department of Studio Art, and the Human Rights Program of the School of Law

28 March 2012 The Kenneth R. Crispell Memorial Lecture in the History of the Health Sciences WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE: STIGMA AND THE STRUGGLE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN THE U.S. Marian Moser Jones PhD, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park MD Colleen Kelly, PACEM, Charlottesville VA Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

13 February 2013 History of the Health Sciences Lecture DEAFNESS AND COMMUNITY: REPRESENTATIONS OF CULTURAL RESISTANCE Christopher Krentz PhD, Department of English and American Sign Language Program, UVA Rebecca Garden PhD, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series and the Department of English, UVA

11 September 2013 A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture CREATING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Cynthia C. Romero MD, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond VA Co-presented with the Generalist Scholars Program and the Department of Public Health Sciences, UVA School of Medicine, in observance at UVA of Primary Care Week

16 October 2013 A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture IN THE NAME OF PAIN: PAIN AND THE STIGMA OF DISABILITY Tobin Siebers PhD, Department of Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI Lois Shepherd JD, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities and School of Law, UVA David B. Morris PhD, University Professor emeritus, Charlottesville VA Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, UVA

12 February 2014 A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture TAKING GOOD CARE OF OUR LGBT ELDERS Nancy Knauer JD, I. Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia PA Chadrick Lane, SMD14, UVA Co-presented with qMD

12 November 2014 A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture TAKING GOOD CARE OF TRANSGENDER TEENS Christine Burt Solorzano MD, Department of Pediatrics, UVA Nancy McLaren MD, Department of Pediatrics, UVA Brock Libby MD, Department of Pediatrics, UVA Co-presented with the Department of Pediatrics and QMD