CMSS Leadership Summit on Equity and Antiracism 

April 22, 2021 | Online Via Zoom

The CMSS Leadership Summit on Equity and Antiracism took place on April 22, 2021. We are grateful to all of our speakers and program participants who contributed to an engaging Summit! This half-day summit focused on providing actionable information and collaborative opportunities to drive sustained improvement in diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and to counter racism in medicine.

Event Schedule:

The complete schedule for the CMSS Leadership Summit on Equity and Antiracism is now available! Click here to review the schedule.

The schedule at a glance is listed below:

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm ET Introduction
3:15 – 4:05 pm ET Plenary: The Time is NOW…for Medical Leadership to ACT -- Anti-Racism in Medicine
Monica Lypson, MD, MHPE, Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Incoming Vice Dean of Education, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
4:05 – 4:50 pm ET Plenary: Equity: A New Metric of Professionalism
Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, Chief of Cardiology, Magerstadt Professor of Medicine, Vice-Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
4:50 – 5:50 pm ET Workshop: Reshaping Dominant Cultural Norms in Medicine
Bonnie Mason, MD, Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion, ACGME
Sunny Nakae, PhD, Senior Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Partnership; Associate Professor, Medical Education, California University of Science and Medicine
5:50 – 6:50 pm ET Panel Discussion – Partnership and Collective Action with Minority Medical Organizations
William McDade, MD, PhD (Moderator), Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, ACGME
Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, President and CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)
Winston Wong, MD, MS, Chair, National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP); Alliance of Multicultural Physicians
Rachel Villanueva, MD President-Elect, National Medical Association (NMA)
6:50 pm – 7:00 pm ET Wrap Up
7:00 pm ET Adjorn