With a focus on diversity, inclusiveness and equity, the 2021 Education Retreat, Diversity and Inclusion in Education, hosted over 300 attendees from ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ (CWRU) School of Medicine, School of Nursing and the four affiliate hospitals: Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth, University Hospitals and Cleveland VA.
The retreat began with a plenary session, Keeping our Pledge to Health Equity and Anti-Racism and featured two speakers from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine: Associate Dean of Multicultural Affairs and Associate Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion Monica Vela, MD, FACP; and James N. Woodruff, MD. Stressing the leadership and infrastructure necessary for successful diversity equity and inclusion initiatives, the speakers advocated system-level changes promoting health equity and accountable bias reporting mechanisms, and recommended structural competency training for trainees and faculty.
The participants then attended poster presentations in four areas:
- Curriculum Development
- Diversity and Disparity
- Residents as Teachers and Learners
- Technology, Simulation, and Virtual Education
Afterward, attendees chose one of six workshops including sessions on: enhancing psychological safety to prevent learner mistreatment; LGBTQ+ curricular needs; anti-racism; microaggression; creating equity and inclusion along the pipeline for underrepresented medical (URiM) students, and trainees and faculty; and bridging the gap in values with Muslim trainees.
The retreat concluded with the annual awards ceremony.
The 2020 Edmond S. Ricanati, MD Award IQ Facilitator Award winners:
- Marcin Golczak, PhD
- Shigemi Matsuyama, PhD
- Howard Simon, PhD
The 2021 Edmond S. Ricanati, MD Award IQ Facilitator Award winners:
- Barbara Baetz-Greenwalt, MD, MBA
- Beata Jastrzebska, PhD
- Karen Mulloy, DO, MSCH
The 2020 Tom Mettee Award for Foundations in Clinical Medicine:
- Michael Joshua Seidman, MD
Scholarship in Teaching Awards in UME, GME and CME:
View the list of awardees here.
Academy of Scholar Educators
2021 New Members:
- Ingrid Anderson, MD, Pediatric Critical Care, University Hospitals
- Rose Beck, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology, CWRU
- Andrei Brateanu, MD, Pediatric Critical Care, University Hospitals
- Katherine Griswold, MD, Pediatrics, University Hospitals
- Sangeeta Krishna, MD, Pediatrician, Cleveland Clinic
- Hua Lou, PhD, Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences, CWRU
- Jeffrey Luk, MD, MS, Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals
- Georges Nakhous, MD, MeD, Nephrologist, Cleveland Clinic
- Allison Payne, MD, MSCR, Neonatologist, University Hospitals
- James Pile, MD, Residency Program Director, MetroHealth
- Jonathan Taliercio, DO, Nephrology/Hypertension, Cleveland Clinic
- Wei Xiong, MD, Nephrology/Vascular Neurology, University Hospitals
2021 New Fellows:
- Richard Blinkhorn, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, MetroHealth
- Anastasia Rowland-Seymour, MD, Internal Medicine, MetroHealth; Medical Director, CWRU PA Program
Congratulations to all of the award winners!
