Climbing The Academic Ladder As An Underrepresented Minority in Medicine and/or LGBTQIA+ Community

Thursday, February 22, 2024

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: Suwannee 16

Course Director(s)

Sima A. Desai, MD, MS (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor & Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship Program Director
Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabiiitation

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Speaker(s)

Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor and Chair
UT Health San Antonio

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LaTanya Lofton Hogue, MD

Adjunct Faculty
Atrium Health/Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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Jason Edwards, DO (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine / Medical Director of Inpatient Rehab at NYP-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Weill Cornell Medicine

This moderated presentation aims to give voice to rehabilitation professionals of color, LGBTQ+ community, and to their powerful allies. Thus, this presentation will present and discuss ongoing approaches from personal experience and evidence-based practice aimed to diversify ways to provide mentorship, career development opportunities, education, exposure, recruitment, retention, and training for health care professionals.