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November 27, 2006 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm |
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Columbia University Medical Center
P&S Alumni Auditorium
630 West 168th Street |
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For further information regarding this event, please send email to events3@columbia.edu. |
| Registration: |
Space is limited and registration is required.
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Please join Executive Vice President Lee Goldman and Vice Provost Jean Howard at a lecture by Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP, Director of the Program in Minority Health and Health Disparities Education and Research, and Former Dean at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Wilson will discuss the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of our nation and the implications for healthcare. Access to care, and the quality of care received, are influenced by many factors including race, ethnicity, and gender. Medical schools and other schools training health professionals need to take steps to increase the diversity of their matriculates and faculty. Failure to do so will mean that much of our nation will continue to receive less than optimal healthcare, in part because health workers will lack the cultural competencies needed to deliver that care in an effective manner. It will also limit the breadth of research performed to address these issues.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College of Dental Medicine, the Mailman School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing, under the leadership of President Lee C. Bollinger and Executive Vice President Lee Goldman, are working to ensure that a richly diverse faculty becomes a hallmark of research and education in the health sciences at Columbia University. Dr. Wilson's lecture marks Columbia Health Sciences' recommitment to the integration of women and men from a range of backgrounds into all aspects of academic life.
Dr. Donald E. Wilson
In 1991, Wilson became the first African American dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the first African American dean of a non-predominantly minority accredited medical school. In 1999, he was appointed as the University's first vice president for medical affairs. Dr. Wilson is known at the University of Maryland for his successful efforts to increase the number of minority faculty and for creating an atmosphere that respects cultural and gender diversity. A gastroenterologist, he arrived at Maryland after 11 years as professor and chairman of the department of medicine at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn.
Dr. Wilson is a member of the Advisory Committee to the director of the National Institutes of Health and has been chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges as well as past chair of the AAMC's Council of Deans, the Executive Committee, and the Advisory Panel on the Mission of Medical Schools of the AAMC. He was named co-chair of the Corporate Council on Africa's Task Forceon AIDS in Africa. He sits on the board of overseers of Tufts School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Wilson is also a master of the American College of Physicians, an honor bestowed on fewer than 0.4% of members. He is a founding member of the Association of Academic Minority Physicians, a professional organization for minority physicians and scientists. In 2000, he became the first recipient of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Herbert W. Nickens M.D. Award, which honors dedication to the principles of diversity and equity in health care.
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