70 Faculty Receive Seed Funding for Projects that Address Structural Racism
Seventy CUIMC faculty members have received seed funding from the Office of the Provost for projects that engage with issues of structural racism. CUIMC faculty are leaders in 31 of the 57 projects that received funding.
The funding is part of Columbia University’s “Addressing Racism: A Call for Action for Higher Education” initiative. Institutions of higher education have historically been a part of the cause, and have the potential to be part of the cure, with respect to structural racism. The goal of this initiative is to provide resources to enable collaborative dialogue, action, and insight for systemic change toward racial equity.
Projects involving CUIMC faculty are listed below; details of all projects are available here.
CROSS-UNIT COLLABORATIONS
Narratives
Elaine Abrams, Pediatrics and Epidemiology
Targeting Provider Bias to Advance Health Equity in Maternal Care
Janice Aubey, Obstetrics & Gynecology; Allison Lee, Anesthesiology
Disrupting the Effects of Racism on Underrepresented in Medicine (Urim) Trainees: Fostering Healing and Agency
Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford, Psychiatry; Hetty Cunningham, Pediatrics; Hilda Hutcherson, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Racial Justice in Gender, Sexuality, & Health
Walter Bockting, Claude Mellins, Robert Remien and Theodorus Sandfort, Psychiatry
Addressing Inequities in Liver Transplant Evaluation: Identifying and Eliminating Health Worker Bias
Lorna Dove and Nicole Golden, Surgery, Julia Wattacheril, Medicine; Jean Emond, Pediatrics; Veronica Roye, Nursing
Addressing Racism Through Education, Intentional Recruitment, & Advocacy
Himabindu Ekanadham, Krishna Desai, and Richard Younge, Medicine; David Rosenthal, Health Policy & Management; Silvia Cunto-Amesty, Medicine and Population & Family Health; Rebecca Leeds and Hannah Brooks, Family & Community Medicine; Nataliya Pilipenko, Medicine and Psychiatry
Keeping the Momentum
Raymond Givens and Andrea Duran, Medicine; Don Edmondson, Medicine and Psychiatry
Picture a Scientist
Wesley Grueber, Physiology & Cellular Biophysics and Neuroscience and Darcy Kelley, Biological Sciences
Race and Health Curriculum
Catherine McManus, Surgery
Designing Antiracist Case Studies
Kathleen Mullen, Nursing; Michael Devlin, Psychiatry; Latisha Hanson, Nursing; Letty Moss-Salentijn, Dental Medicine
Racial Justice Podcast
Desmond Patton, Ovita Williams, and Susan Witte, Social Work; Jennifer Manly, Neurology
Justice and Pandemics Preparedness Academy
Lisa Rosen-Metsch, Dean, General Studies and Sociomedical Sciences; James Colgrove and Samuel Roberts, Sociomedical Sciences; Marlyn Delva, Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences; Dana March-Palmer, Epidemiology; Julien Teitler, Social Work
Awareness and Community Activism to Confront Racism in the Mental Health System
M. Katherine Shear, Social Work; Sidney Hankerson, Psychiatry
Activating Racial Justice Through Narrative Negotiation
Danielle Spencer, Derek McCracken, and Carmen Price, Narrative Medicine; Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
Sleep Center of Excellence Seminar Special Series on Discrimination, Social Injustice, and Sleep
Marie Pierre St-Onge, Medicine; Carmela Alcantara, Social Work
Moving Towards Anti-racist Systems and Policies to Reduce Childhood Obesity
Jennifer Woo Baidal, Pediatrics; Elena Ladas, Pediatrics and Epidemiology; John Rausch, Pediatrics
INDIVIDUAL UNIT PROJECTS
Fostering Inclusive Excellence—Addressing Racism & Culture in PT Education (FIERCE)
Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese, Clare Bassile, and Ashwin Rao, Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine
Using Narrative Ethics to Explore Racial Disparities in Healthcare
Joyeeta Dastidar, Medicine
Anti-racism and the Emergency Department: A Year-long Program Towards Self-inquiry and Institutional Progress
Almaz Dessie and Stefan Flores, Emergency Medicine
CUIMC Diversity Day
Stefan Flores and Almaz Dessie, Emergency Medicine
Decolonizing Development
Julie Franks, Sociomedical Sciences
The MOSAIC (Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community): Initiative for Equity and Inclusion
Stephanie Grilo and Goleen Samari, Population and Family Health
COVID-19 and Telemedicine: Impact on Racial Orthopedic Healthcare Disparities
Charles Jobin, Orthopedic Surgery
Understanding and Responding to Racial Microaggressions in the Theatre of the Oppressed
Allison Lee, Desmond Jordan, and Maya Hastie, Anesthesiology
Anti-Racism in the Intensive Care Unit at Columbia University Medical Center: Evaluation of our Current State and a Journey to Make the Uncomfortable Comfortable
Vivek Moitra, Jonathan Hastie, and Beth Hochman, Anesthesiology
A Revolution in Race-Based Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Reporting: An Educational Initiative
Heather Morris and Krzysztof Kiryluk, Medicine
Improving Mobile Health Access and Quality to Black Patients with Liver Disease
Akhil Shenoy, Psychiatry
Center for Research on People of Color—Anti-Racism Speaker Series
Jacquelyn Taylor, Nursing
Seminars in African American History of Medicine
William Turner, Medicine
Nth Dimension Summer Internship (NDSI) Program at Columbia Orthopedics—A Program Designed to Bridge the Gap in Mentorship for Underrepresented Minorities Seeking a Career in Orthopedic Medicine
Wakenda Tyler and William Levine (Chair), Orthopedic Surgery
Black Liver Health Initiative—Outreach Campaign
Elizabeth Verna, Medicine