Let’s spend less time talking about a brotha who lost his cool accepting an award while making millions …..and focus more about changing this %%. #RepresentationMatters

Some news from me… I’m honored and excited to be joining JAMA & the JAMA Network as the next editor-in-chief!

If you rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms who agree that Rules Are Overrated: My Son Is a Disruptor, So Am I | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/riskin…

Today we woke up with broken hearts. More children are slaughtered at school, and Congress does nothing. Gun violence is killing our kids. And it is unacceptable.

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Introducing our 11 regional centers, one national coordinating center, and 27 partner institutions across the United States working collaboratively to ensure the greatest impact for today’s health inequity challenges. health-equity-action.org

With the Senate likely voting on a reconciliation bill this weekend, we've collected several recent analyses relevant to understanding the health provisions in the sweeping $740 billion legislation, as well as their potential impact on people. kff.org/medicare/under…

By a vote of 57-43, the #Senate did not agree to the motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to the Insulin provision of Schumer substitute amendment #5194 GOP Voting Yes: Senators Cassidy, Collins, Hawley, Hyde Smith, Kennedy Murkowski & Sullivan

Finally …the Senate has passed a bill that we can only hope will become law. What it does: 1) Allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices 🙌🏾🙌🏾 2) Prevents price increases on drugs Medicare buys..🙌🏾🙌🏾 3) Caps out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors to max of $2000 per year🙌🏾🙌🏾

Low payment rates under Medicaid reimbursement is just one example of a policy that upholds structural racism. Policies that disproportionately impact the health and well-being of people of color continue the cycle of oppression. Learn more at: bit.ly/3uJGrBn

.Weill Cornell Medicine Surgery researchers have identified a link between African ancestry and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The findings could provide future treatment options for TNBC, which has the worst survival outcomes of all breast cancer types. bit.ly/3eVwCLz

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We are excited to announce that Dr. Ebony Boulware has been named dean of @WakeForestMed and vice chief academic officer and chief science officer of Atrium Health, effective January 2023. Read the full announcement. newsroom.wakehealth.edu/news-releases/…

Dream squad! #womeninmedicine

URM PCPs & HOUSESTAFF-- Dr. Lauren Kriger Groner & Erica Phillips, MD, MS are studying barriers to lung ca screening--1 hr focus group, $100 gift card, help save lives in our communities! Manhattan Central Medical Society NHMA Council of Young Physicians NHMA Council of Residents and Fellows (COR) NHMA International Medical Graduates National Hispanic Medical Association National Medical Association Association of American Indian Physicians SGIM STFM AAFP

No surprise here Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, FAHA again elevating the voices of a workforce often overlooked and unheard 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds 🙏🏾 for all that you do for our patients General Internal Medicine WCM Office of the Research Dean NYP in Your Community Caring for caregivers pix11.com/video/caring-f…

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Ok #TwitterFamily. Here it is...📢 Downstate has been awarded a game-changing $10M endowment grant for #HealthEquity research training to add to our original $10M! Yup, that's $20M after 5 years! When I tell you this is the academic 🦸#JusticeLeague ...what an amazing team! 🧵