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This session includes a didactic lecture followed by Q&A and interaction between the panel of presenters. The session addresses racial disparities in medical education and in healthcare. The presenters discuss the impact of social determinants of health on people of color and other minorities. Other topics will include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on minorities and how social determinants of health are at the core of the high rates of hospitalizations and death for the black and brown populations. Medical education in this country has been very limited for people of color and the impact of the 1910 Flexner report is addressed. Unconscious bias is addressed for people of color as well as other minorities including women and the LGBTQ community.
Dr Andrea Reid is Associate Dean for Student and Multicultural Affairs and Director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Reid is also a hepatologist and the Director of Diversity and Faculty Development for Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). After graduating from Brown University, Dr. Reid came to HMS, earning her MD in 1988. She completed internal medicine and GI training at MGH, then joined the MGH staff. During her tenure, Dr. Reid co-chaired the Internship Selection Committee, directed the gastroenterology fellowship, was associate director of the Multicultural Affairs Office, and taught at HMS. While at MGH, Dr. Reid earned an MPH from Harvard Chan School of Public Health and was deeply involved in the Boston community. From 2009 to 2020, Dr. Reid served as a gastroenterologist at the Washington, DC VA Medical Center. Dr. Reid has also held several national leadership roles, including chair of the GI Training Examination (GTE) for the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), and chair of the AGA Task Force on Under-Represented Minorities. Her clinical and research interests include racial disparities and medical education, and she is a frequent lecturer on liver disease and medical education.
