Category: JEDI-B

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to RSVP to Making Waves, our AAPI Heritage Month lunch celebration on Wednesday, May 31 at 11:30 AM in CAM’s Grand Rounds Room. We will have 7 posters featuring our department faculty, residents, and staff, as well as speakers! Speaker List:Michael Lim, MD (via…

Please RSVP here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/71bdcd710b6348a1b7fca0e9da504945 With Gratitude, Ross E Horiuchi, Mike Jaime, Dian Le, Jennie Rivera Visitacion

The JEDI-B committee is organizing an AAPI Heritage Month celebration for the entire department on May 31 with AAPI food, posters, and speakers. The goal is to celebrate the heritage of our AAPI staff, discuss cultural traditions, and highlight how our cultures have shaped our identities. We want to make this event…

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (NHPI) individuals are often aggregated with Asian individuals in medical research. However, there are important distinctions between these populations that are underappreciated by the greater research community. NHPI and Asian individuals have very different health disparities, and by grouping these two racial groups, NHPI…