DEI Toolkit: Getting Started with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives at Your Institution

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM US PST

Location: B119

Earn 3.50 CME Hour

Workshop Lead Faculty(s)

Elisa R. Trowbridge, MD

Professor/ Division Director
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Workshop Faculty(s)

Marian Acevedo-Alvarez, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, Illinois, United States
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Karolynn Echols, MD, FACOG, FPMRS, FABOIM (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor and Section Chief FPMRS
Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Ankita Gupta, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Associate Fellowship Director, FPMRS
University of Louisville
Kati Dengler, MD FACOG FPMRS FACS (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor USUHS and Chief, Urogynecology Division
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Sarah S. Boyd, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Penn State University College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Disclosure(s):

Marian Acevedo Alvarez, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Karolynn Echols, MD, FACOG, FPMRS, FABOIM: Abbvie, Inc.: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Clinical Trial Investigator (Ongoing); Coloplast, Inc.: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Medtronic, Inc: Educational Consultant (Ongoing)

Ankita Gupta, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Kati Dengler, MD FACOG FPMRS FACS: No financial relationships to disclose

Academic and community health centers across the nation are experiencing a reawakening to the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The workshop proposes to review the importance and value of DEI in an organization. Second, the workshop will review a model for developing a departmental DEI Committee to create a positive climate of DEI which is crucial to the success of any academic or community department. In addition, the workshop will review the best practices and current guideline/standards to improve recruitment of student, resident and faculty underrepresented in medicine (URiM). Lastly, the workshop will present a DEI toolkit with materials and resources that will strengthen the participant’s knowledge of how to construct a DEI action plan at their organization.

Learning Objectives:

Know the importance and value of DEI in an organization.
Describe a model for developing a departmental DEI Committee.
Identify best practices and current guideline/standards to improve recruitment of student, resident and faculty underrepresented in medicine (URiM).
Describe DEI toolkit with materials and resources to construct a DEI action plan.