CDI Monthly eNews: June 2021 |
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In This Issue
- Announcements
- RFC Corner
- MGH and MGB Events
- MGH Awards, Fellowships and Funding
- HMS Events, Webinars and Awards
- External Events and Opportunities
- In Case You Missed It
- Congratulations
- In The News
- Happenings In Boston
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Meet the New Members of the CDI Team |
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As a part of the Equity and Community Health team, we continue to push forward the MGH Structural Equity Ten-Point Plan, a roadmap for addressing structural and overt racism within and outside the MGH, as we strengthen and deepen our relationships in the communities we serve. This plan includes an expansion of CDI resources and programs to support and advance the Patient Care Services and research workforce. We are delighted to welcome Leah Gordon DNP, RN, CNP, FNP-C, as CDI Director for Patient Care Services, and Karen L. Osborne Greene as CDI Administrative Director for Research to help us achieve these goals.
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Leah Gordon, DNP, RN, CNP, FNP-C, has been named Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) Director for Patient Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital. She will lead diversity and inclusion activities for the Department of Patient Care Services, play a critical role in implementing initiatives within the MGH Structural Equity Plan and the expansion of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) mission, focused on advancing workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion across the hospital.
Leah will succeed Deb Washington, PhD, RN, as Diversity Director of PCS. A true pioneer in this work, Deb is now transitioning to a new role as DE&I Community Health Partnerships Manager. (See below)
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Karen L. Osborne Greene has been named Administrative Director for Research in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI). Building upon decades of diversity, equity and inclusion work by CDI and others within and outside of the Mass General, She will work with research departments/centers, investigators and administrators within and outside of MGH to help support and promote efforts that will continue to increase the diversity within the research community and ensure equity and inclusion for all.
Karen will also help to ensure that our youth are exposed to careers in healthcare and their interest and passion to assist others through careers in research is supported.
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Welcome the 2021 Summer Research Trainee Program
(SRTP) Students
Save the Date for Final Presentations on July 29, August 4 & 5
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The CDI is excited to continue partnering with Mass General departments to expand the pipeline of students who are underrepresented in medicine (UiM) and interested in pursuing careers in academic medicine through the Summer Research Trainee Program (SRTP.) We are delighted to welcome 29 outstanding college and medical students to the SRTP Class of 2021. Thanks to funding from the MGH 10 Pt Structural Equity Plan, we grew the program by 9 students, making this is the largest Class in SRTP history. Students are paired with MGH investigators and conduct novel research in basic science labs, clinical research sites, health policy, and health services settings over 8 weeks during the summer. The SRTP experience culminates with students presenting their research projects to the MGH community on July 29, August 4 and 5 (details to follow.)
SRTP is also funded by ECOR, the MGPO, the President’s Office and the department sponsoring the student. We are grateful to the 2021 sponsors and preceptors who make this program possible!
Students and the departments where they are matched are listed below.
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Congratulations Class of 2021 Graduates!
Recording of Graduation Celebration Available
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On Thursday, June 3, 2021 CDI honored 52 UiM resident and fellow graduates from 16 departments across Mass General. This inspirational virtual event featured remarks from hospital, CDI and RFC leadership; a special tribute to Peter Slavin, MGH President; a unique graduate roll call; and a beautiful musical tribute. You may view this Zoom recording (with the original videos) via this link. |
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Congratulation to the 2021-22 CDI Resident and Fellow Committee Board! |
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The CDI works closely with its Resident and Fellow Committee (RFC), an inter-departmental forum for MGH trainees who are underrepresented in medicine (UiM). The RFC is led by residents and fellows who are elected by their peers and plays a crucial role in the professional and personal development of UiM residents and fellows at Mass General. This committee assists with residency recruitment, offers opportunities to socialize and network among peers, enhance career development, and become involved in the larger Harvard and Boston communities. |
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Thank you to the Outgoing 2020-21 CDI Resident and Fellow Committee Board for your service! |
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MGH and MGB Events and Seminars |
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The Mass General CCHI Youth Graduation
Friday, June 25 @ 12 - 1 pm
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You are Invited!
to the
2021 CCHI Virtual Graduation Celebration
Friday, June 25, 2021
12 to 1 pm
Please join the Zoom at 11:45 am.
The event will begin promptly at noon.
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Our Class of 2021 includes graduating youth from:
Charlestown Coalition’s Turn It Around
Healthy Chelsea’s Teen Action Project
Healthy Chelsea’s Youth Food Movement
MGH College Scholars Alumni Program
MGH Youth Scholars High School Program
Revere CARES’s Youth Health Leadership Council
Keynote Speaker and Honoree for his longstanding, unwavering commitment to the young people of Boston, Chelsea and Revere:
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Peter L. Slavin, MD
President, Massachusetts General Hospital
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2021 Pride CommuniT
June 30 @ 4 pm
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Dana Farber Cancer Institute invites all transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming staff and faculty in the Longwood Medical Area, its satellites, and MGB to gather in a virtual space for community and connection on June 30 at 4:00 p.m.! Register.
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Special Seminar of the MGH Building Up Scholars Poster Presentation - July 20 @ 5 pm ET |
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Join the poster session which showcases the research of our National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Scholars on July 20th at 5:00 pm ET.* The NRMN scholars are participating in a study that is focused on diversifying the workforce. This study is funded by NIH and is randomizing 26 universities to test the effectiveness of an intervention focused on building the research careers of postdocs and junior faculty, which was developed at the University of Pittsburgh. For more information about this project click here.
*MGH Building Up scholars:
David Alagpulinsa, PhD - Medicine
Eman Akam, PhD - Medicine
Katia Canenguez, PhD, EdM- Psychiatry
Daniel Chonde, MD, PhD- Radiology
Onyinyechi Eke, MD- Emergency Medicine
Alister Martin, MD, MPP- Emergency Medicine
Jason Sherer, MD, MPH- Cardiology
Mabel Toribio, MD- Medicine- Endocrine- Metabolism Unit
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 844 2604 9796
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People's heART Unveils New "OFF THE GRID" Exhibit
July 15 - August 1
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The Peoples' heART is a new initiative dedicated to better supporting and reflecting the diversity of our patients, staff, and community by reinventing healthcare settings through art and design—at Mass General and beyond.
The latest Peoples’ heART installation, OFF THE GRID, was started by Alison Brookes, MD, Susan Ogan MS, MSW, and Karen Bowden. Over a six-month period, they helped individuals experiencing homelessness find their artistic voice through photography and raised money for day services at the Lynn Emergency Adult Shelter.
By displaying this collection of art at Mass General and accompanying health equity information on the website, we hope to raise community awareness while exploring the humanity and resilience of individuals experiencing homelessness.
View the exhibit while it is on display at MGH 55 Fruit St. Boston, across from Coffee Central from July 15 – August 1, and learn more at thepeoplesheart.org.
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MGH Awards, Fellowships and Funding |
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The Disparities Leadership Program Request for Applications
Intent to Apply Deadline: June 25, 2021
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The Disparities Leadership Program (DLP) is now taking applications for the 2021-2022 class. Letters of intent are due Friday, June 25, 2021 and applications are due Friday, July 9, 2021. The DLP is a year-long executive education program designed for leaders from health care organizations who want to implement practical strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care, particularly through quality improvement. To date, over 475 participants from 207 organizations representing 33 states, Washington D.C., the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Canada, and Switzerland have participated in the program.
To download a Letter of Intent form and application, click here:
Click here to view the timeline of the application process and DLP year. Read more about the Disparities Leadership Program (DLP) here.
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T 32 Program to Enrich Translation and Multimodal Research in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
Request for Applications
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The main goal of this T32 program is to provide a 2-year postdoctoral training experience, rich in multimodal neuroimaging, that focuses on three key research areas in Alzheimer’s disease and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD):
[1] the biology of aging and neurodegeneration;
[2] data sciences, computational biology, statistics, mathematics, engineering, biophysics; and
[3] drug discovery and drug development disciplines.
The primary mission of this program is to promote the development of a diverse, translational research workforce that is capable of participating and/or leading cross-disciplinary team science relevant for the treatment and prevention of AD/ADRD. Most T32 faculty are within the MGH Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and/or Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Program Director: Julie Price, PhD, Professor of Radiology, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging - T32 AG066592
Email: T32ADRD@mgh.harvard.edu
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HMS Events, Webinars and Awards |
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Request for Nominations:
Inaugural Equity, Social Justice, and Advocacy Award
Extended Deadline: Friday, June 25
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The new Equity, Social Justice, and Advocacy Award recognizes individuals at Harvard Medical School (HMS)/Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) and within the HMS/HSDM-affiliate community who advance equity, social justice, and advocacy - contributions that affirm the HMS mission, HMS community values, and medical professionalism. Health equity and social justice advocacy – whether directed at our patients, practices, institutions, systems, or society – are inherent in medicine’s professional ethos. To be contd..
Eligibility
The following individuals are eligible for this award:
Faculty – must be based at HMS/HSDM, or an HMS-affiliated hospital or institution.
Trainee – must be a house officer, clinical or research fellow, post-doctoral fellow based at HMS/HSDM or at an HMS-affiliated hospital or institution.
Student – must be enrolled at HMS/HSDM or HMS Division of Medical Sciences.
Staff – must work directly for HMS or HSDM (receiving a Harvard paycheck).
Nominations
In addition to internal nominations, self-nominations and nominations from outside institutions, organizations or individuals will be accepted.
Submissions
Self-nominations are accepted. All nominations must be submitted online.
Extended Deadline: Friday, June 25, 2021
For the Award Guidelines and Nomination Form visit:
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Visiting Clerkship Program and
Harvard-Affiliated Residences Webinar: Psychiatry
Tuesday, June 29 @ 12 - 1:30 pm
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Join our panel of Harvard-affiliated Psychiatry residency program directors as we address common questions regarding the residency application process and medical training at Harvard-affiliated institutions.
Shireen Cama, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry,
Interim Program Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Cambridge Health Alliance
Nkechi Conteh, MBBS, MPH
MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency
Assistant Program Director, Instructor in Psychiatry,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Fremonta Meyer, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
Psychiatry Residency Interim Program Director,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Deisy Marcela Ramirez, MD
Interim Program Director,
Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program
Instructor in Psychiatry,
Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System
Christie Sams, MD
Psychiatry Residency Training Program Director,
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Moderator:
Alden Landry, MD, MPH
Assistant Dean, Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership,
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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HMS URiM Trainee and Family BBQ Dinner
August 18 @ 3 - 7:30 pm
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External Events and Opportunities |
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Civic Health Month: Stand Up For Our Democracy |
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Civic Health Month is a nationwide celebration held each August to highlight the strong connections between health care, healthy communities, and civic participation. We are a nonpartisan advocacy and awareness month dedicated to making voting and civic participation accessible to all—particularly those underserved by the healthcare system. Civic Health Month brings together a diverse group of organizations, institutions, and individuals across the healthcare and civic engagement space that are excited to support healthy communities by promoting voter participation.
Civic Health Month was launched in 2020 by Vot-ER, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that equips healthcare providers to have conversations with their patients about registering to vote. It is currently coordinated in partnership with over 100 organizations.
To learn more about how you could be involved, please click here.
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NMA 2021 Virtual Convention & Scientific Assembly
July 16 - 20, 2021
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Edward C. Mazique, MD Symposium
Addressing Anti-Racism and Public Health
July 17 @ 11 - 12:30 pm ET
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Join to explore the intersection of politics and health. The topic of the NMA 2021 Mazique Symposium promises to be a powerful discussion. Anti-Racism: A Call to Action for Public Health .
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Recordings of the 2021 MGB Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit - Understanding and Dismantling Racism: Our Path Forward -- are now available on this dedicated Summit Pulse page. Please note that due to contractual obligations, not all speakers were able to be recorded. We encourage you to utilize the available recordings so you can strengthen your commitment to advancing equity and racial justice.
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Allison Bryant, MD, MPH was appointed on June 1 as the Mass General Brigham Department of Quality and Patient Experience (QPE) Senior Medical Director for Health Equity. In this role, Dr. Bryant will lead clinical health equity efforts across the system with an overarching goal of eliminating structural racism in medicine. She will oversee the implementation and coordination of enterprise wide programs aimed at measuring inequity and racism, improving access to digital health care and multilingual health care, addressing social determinants of health and primary care quality, and advocating for payer contracting and health policies that promote anti-racism.
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Felipe A. Jain, MD, director of Healthy Aging Studies, MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program, was one of 10 physician-scientists from around the country to receive a Paul B. Beeson K76 Emerging Leaders in Aging Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging. He is the first psychiatrist to receive the award since its inception in 2016, and one of a handful of psychiatrists to be honored as a Beeson Scholar over the past 20 years. The award will support his research to study mobile technologies that deliver and measure the results of mindfulness psychotherapies for stressed family dementia caregivers.
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David Perez, MD MMSc (CDI PSDA 2016) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Neurology and recently awarded a NIMH R01 grant entitled "Defining Neurobiological Subtypes of Motor Functional Neurological Disorder". At MGH, Dr. Perez leads a cutting-edge multidisciplinary clinical and research program in Functional Neurological Disorder, commenting that the PSDA support was "highly instrumental" in catalyzing his academic success.
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Julie Price, PhD recipient of this year's Lassen Award. This is the major award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Also called the “Kuhl-Lassen Award”, the award was given just last week and recognizes “a scientist who has made outstanding contributions and whose research in and service to the discipline of functional brain imaging is of the highest caliber”.
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Jorge A. Torres, M.D., recipient of Anne B. Young Translational Neuroscience Fellowship and Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowship: National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The Anne B. Young Translational Neuroscience Fellowship a 2-year fellowship between MGH and Biogen focusing on clinical trials, trial design and drug development, was awarded to Jorge A. Torres, M.D. For more information click here.
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Effect of Community Health Workers on 30-Day Hospital Readmissions in an Accountable Care Organization Population "These results indicate that community health worker interventions may help reduce hospital readmissions and improve preventive care among some clinically complex patients within an accountable care organization," wrote lead author Dr. Jocelyn Carter, an investigator in the department of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in a released statement which was published on Jama Network on May 20,2021. To read the full study click here.
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July 2 to July 25, Summer 2021
Ken Ludwig’s
Baskerville
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Directed by Jim O’Connorº
From the award-winning mastermind of mayhem, Ken Ludwig, comes Baskerville, a fast-paced comedy about everyone’s favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” before a family curse dooms its newest heir. The timeless duo investigate a dizzying web of clues along with three actors who deftly portray more than 40 characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be.
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Center for Diversity and Inclusion
55 Fruit Street, Bulfinch 123
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-3832
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