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This video from The Commonwealth Fund explores the history of racism in American health care and highlights a program involving Washington University that is working to change course — starting with doctors in training.

As the Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Dr. Cassandra Fritz lead efforts to create a video on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Department of Medicine to use for the 2021 Internal Medicine Residency Interview season.   DEI Residency Video  

Congratulations to the inaugural members of the Internal Medicine Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Residency House Staff Council. Alex Sievert, MD Avira Som, MD Damien Abreu, MD, PhD Eric Prado, MD Joshua Mendoza, MD Kai Jones, MD Kandice Roberts, MD Karl Wallenkampf, MD, MA Kelly Gorrell, MD Kelly McDermott, MD Nathan Bekele, MD Nathan Neilson, […]

George Kyei, MBChB, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases was awarded $393,750 in RO1 funding from the NIH/NIAID for research on “Protein interactions regulating HIV replication in macrophages”.  The goal is to identify cellular factors that control HIV replication and find therapeutic targets for host-directed viral control or elimination.

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Dear Colleagues: Juneteenth is an important day in the history of the United States. On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, Major General Gordon Grander announced the end of the Civil War and that the enslaved were free. This announcement, however, came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.  As many enslavers continued […]

Dr. Dominique Cosco, Director Internal Medicine Residency Program, and Dr. Angela Brown ,Vice Chair for Health Equity in the Department of Medicine, are excited to announce a new member of the IM Residency Program’s leadership team. Cassandra Fritz, MD has been appointed as the Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Internal Medicine Residency Program.  Dr. Fritz grew up […]

In conjunction with the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Lynn Cornelius (DOM Study PI) and the DOM Office of Inclusion and Diversity completed the Bias Reduction in Internal Medicine (BRIM) workshops in April 2021.  The BRIM Initiative offered the opportunity to help our DOM faculty “break the bias habit” and align their judgments and behaviors with […]