DEI News & Events

Introducing Cayetana Navarro, MBA, of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Internal Medicine (ODEIM).

New Yale research finds nearly 30% of emergency department patients are jumped in line, and marginalized groups bear the brunt.

I have much to update you on since I wrote last month. I have been meeting people with Yale School of Medicine and the Yale New Haven Hospital graduate medical education office. I have also been working with many groups across the institution on recruitment events, working group and diversity work participation, and mentorship and retention.

Starting today, YouTube will remove medical misinformation surrounding cancer treatment, Dr. Garth Graham, head of YouTube Health, said in a blog post. Graham said “content that promotes unproven treatments in place of approved care or as a guaranteed cure, and treatments that have been specifically deemed harmful by health authorities,” would be removed. For example, videos claiming “garlic cures cancer,” or “take vitamin C instead of radiation therapy.” Misinformation can deeply prey "on the hope of our patients who have cancer," said Dr. Pamela Kunz, a professor and oncologist at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital. The move is welcome, Kunz said, but it’s a challenging one. “I think that it may be tricky to figure out how to implement that,” Kunz said. “To have that be a stated goal is really important.”

In a new study, researchers developed an automated computerized decision-making tool to increase the screening of patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases starting immunosuppressive medications.

Introducing Pamela Kunz, MD, of the Section of Medical Oncology.

A new study finds MD-PhD program attrition is highest among Black students, which has impacts on the diversity and innovation of biomedicine.

Dr. Pamela Kunz is exploring sex and gender differences in a type of gastrointestinal cancer and in the adverse effects from cancer treatments.

First of all, I am very excited to be here at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and the Department of Internal Medicine. I officially started a little over a week ago and have been getting settled. I have lived in the Chicago area for a long time, and this is my first time living in the Northeast. I was born in Nigeria, where I attended medical school. I completed an internal medicine residency program in the UK and relocated to Chicago, where I completed a second internal medicine residency program at Cook County Hospital. I worked for Cook County Health for 24 years in various roles and was a professor of medicine at Rush Medical College. I joined the Yale team to be part of the robust structure fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). I applaud Yale’s leadership commitment to DEI.