This episode focuses on the issues surrounding George Floyd and anti-black racism, and what we in informatics can do to combat this issue that's finally been thrust into the light where enough Americans can see it that they are calling for action. (Thank you, America. Better late than never.)
Special thanks to our guests! Dr. Arie Nettles is Professor of Pediatrics, and the Director, Office of Inclusion and Health Equity, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Nancy Lorenzi is Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Clinical Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. She is also Vice President for Strategic Change Management at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a world expert on organizational dynamics and how to change structures and processes.
Dr. Yaa Kumah Krystal is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics. Yaa is a thoughtful, articulate and experienced black woman, who is wildly creative and offers a lot of insights during this conversation.
Philip Adejumo is a soon-to-be medical student at Yale, where he will be pursuing an MD and PhD at the same time. Oh, and he’s a swimmer and has qualified for the summer Olympics.
Dr. Patty Brennan is one of the most visible and most influential biomedical informatics experts in the world. The WORLD! She’s director of the National Library of Medicine, and in that role, as well as in her previous roles in academia, she has been a fierce proponent of personalized care, health equity, and the importance of social and behavioral determinants of health in developing socio-technical systems.
We covered some very visceral and at times, frustrating topics. I don’t want to give ANYTHING away on this one, folks. It’s worth the ride. The one thing I will say is that it’s not just about the usual topics of bias in data, more papers about how to help subpopulations in our community become resilient. Not that these aren’t important, but we went somewhere much deeper, much more generalizable, and way beyond just what we in informatics can do. I for one, have some very clear marching orders based on this podcast.
Listen to this one twice—once where you listen to podcasts, and once at a place where you keep your to-do list. You CAN and will make a difference if you heed even one piece of advice from this episode.
Life After Leadership: Stories from Inside Biomedical Informatics Departments
Decoding Digital Dynamics: Inside the SAFELab with Desmond Upton Patton
Clinical Trials: Are We Whitewashing the Data?
Getting ”Dis”ed: Battling Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media
Reframing Minds: Combatting Medical Inequities with Data
The Future of AI in Medicine: Aladdin’s Lamp, or Pandora’s Box?
Informatics and Health Equity - A Critical Partnership
Fixing Medical Documentation - Less ”Whine” with your Cheese!
Health Information Exchanges: Myths and Realities
Overturning Roe: The Meteor that Hit Health Care
Finding Peace in Portals
Informatics, the EHR and LGBTQ+: Another issue out of the closet!
Who, Me? My Road to Informatics
21st Century Cures: What Song are People Singing?
Clinician Burnout
Women in Healthcare: A View from their Homes
Genome-informed Care Decisions: Welcome to Cutting-edge Medicine!
21st Century Cures: Curing our Anxiety or Causing It?
Phenotyping: What Makes You Not Average?
COVID and the Hidden Data Gap
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Short Wave
Unexplainable
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Breakthrough
The Science of Life with Dr. Raven Baxter