Contributions
Dr. Deborah Dorsett: Inclusivity in Medical Education
Transcript: Well, I think it starts from the admission process, I think, you know, we have to start looking beyond the numbers how people look. And we see that at a national level, right, where we have to include people who look of different colors, that allows to have that diversity to have the discussion...
Dr. Roger A Mitchell Jr.: Death in Custody
I wrote a book along with my co author. His name is Jay Aronson . He is a professor of human rights at Carnegie Mellon. I’m a professor of pathology at Howard University. And I’ve been studying death in custody since my first year of medical school, young man by the name of Amadou Diallo,...
Dr. Greg Williams: Collaboration Across Healthcare Disciplines
As a physician, what we need to do as our physicians have different discipline areas such as endocrinology, such as vascular general surgery, orthopedics, and internal medicine, we have to find a way to come together in these hospitals, I feel a lot of times we lose patients, especially the patients that may get a...
Dr. Greg Williams: Diabetes Podiatry
I can remember when I was in training, which was pretty much like, from ‘93, to pretty much 2001. And diabetes at that time, was at the point where we started just to get to know the effects of diabetes, not only on other organs of the body, but especially the feet, the two components...
Dr. Greg Williams: Health Disparities in African American Diabetes Care
My name is Greg Williams, born and raised in New Orleans. So it’s great to be the hosts of this wonderful meeting and organization thats the National Medical Association. I’m actually the co chair for the podiatry section. I’ve been in practicing for 24 years in the specialty of foot and ankle, and a unique...
Dr. Isaretta Riley : Changes in Medicine since the Civil Rights Movement
One thing I will say is that the fact that I’m here as a physician, the fact that our work at Duke, right there was a time when Black people could not go to Duke for school and could not be faculty there. So that by itself, the fact that I’m here, and I went to...
Dr. Isaretta Riley: Health Literacy
Transcript: I often do what I say, is double talk where I will use the technical medical language, but then I’ll follow it up with more of a layman’s talk. So therefore, I don’t assume whether you know it or not. And so I just make sure that I’m talking in a manner that everyone...
Dr. Isaretta Riley: Health Disparities in the Pulmonary Arena
Transcript: Hi, everyone. I’m Isaretta Riley. I am an assistant professor in the division of pulmonary allergy and critical care at Duke University School of Medicine. I am the Vice Chief of diversity, equity and inclusion. And I’m also the co director for the community engagement and dissemination Corps, which is part of our Health...
Dr. Garfield Clunie: Stress in America
Transcript: I think that one of the issues with gun violence in America is that there’s too much access to guns. And I think what happens is mental illness is not really paid attention to as much as it should be by the medical profession, because I think insurance and access is a big issue....