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Pediatric Health Equity

Pediatrics continues to optimize our mission: imagining what’s possible for each and every child. We do that by being fully committed to our tripartite mission: taking great clinical care of the patients in front of us, doing meaningful research to make the outcomes of our future patients better, and providing a training environment to replenish the field to at some point replace us.

Dr. Andrew Atz, Chair

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Committee Goals

  • Increase numbers of faculty under-represented in medicine (URM) through organized efforts of recruitment of URM candidates for faculty positions.
  • Increase retention of URM faculty.
  • Ensure fair and just academic promotion of female and URM faculty through mentoring.
  • Increase numbers of URM resident and fellow physicians in the pediatric GME programs through organized efforts of recruitment of URM candidates.
  • Create an environment supportive of diversity (department and hospital).Improve patient and family experiences of diversity in pediatric clinics and children’s hospital. 
  • Improve patient and family experiences of diversity in pediatric clinics and children’s hospital. 

 

Learn more about the Department of Pediatrics Diversity and Inclusion program here.