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Video Length: 80 minutes
Description:
Engaged leadership is a cornerstone of addressing diversity and inclusion because of their ability to view organizations from a macroscopic perspective and initiate and implement change. Leaders have the ability to hard-wire LGBT diversity and inclusion into education, patient care, faculty affairs, policies, and performance metrics.
Learning Objectives:
This session aims to empower leaders to ensure LGBT diversity and inclusion by:
- Providing a clinically-relevant overview of LGBT health disparities and their cost to healthcare.
- Increase awareness of the current gaps in LGBT academic medicine.
- Highlight the role of leadership in successful LGBT initiatives.
- Outline easy wins for leadership to integrate and evaluate LGBT initiatives at their own institutions.
Presenters:
Kristen Eckstrand, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Vanderbilt Program for LGBTI Health
Chair, AAMC Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Sex Development
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
John Davis, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Medical Education, The Ohio State University
AAMC Group on Diversity & Inclusion (GDI) LGBT Issues Representative
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