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The AGS Ethics Committee hosted a webinar featuring a panel of AGS members discussing how geriatrics health professionals can (a) understand implicit and structural racism and (b) work to overcome the barriers that these create, in order to build partnerships with patients from different cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. This webinar is the first in a series that will explore the difficult yet critically important areas of bias and discrimination, with the aim of providing tools for creating a just, equitable, and inclusive healthcare environment. The series is being offered as a part of the AGS intersection of Structural Racism and Ageism Initiative.

Webinar Co-Chairs
Jennifer Muniak, MD
University of Rochester

Aruna Josyula, MD, MPH
Mercy Health Muskegon, Michigan

Webinar Speakers
Annette Medina-Walpole, MD, AGSF
University of Rochester 
AGS President

Ramona Rhodes, MD, MPH, MSCS, AGSF
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
AGS Ethics Committee Chair

Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH, AGSF
San Francisco VA Medical Center

Ella Bowman, MD, PhD, AGSF, FAAHPM, FACP
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Anthony Caprio, MD, CMD, AGSF
Carolinas Health Care System - Atrium Health

Margie Shaw, JD, PhD
University of Rochester

Dulce Cruz-Oliver, MD, AGSF
Johns Hopkins University

Gina Upchurch, RPh, MPH
Senior PharmAssist

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Related Content

See Racism in the Workplace - A Reflection on Patient Bias by Frontline Workers for the final webinar in this series.