I created a grant-funded 'Train the Trainer' program for minority adolescents interested in health careers to become instructors for my Hip Hop with a Doc weight management dance program.
I just graduated my first cohort!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

About to head out and speak about my favorite topic #PAH , and listening to my “feeling confident” playlist. What do you do to get ready for #publicspeaking ? #pulmtwitter #utsw

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I’m excited to give the closing plenary for #IDWeek2022 along with Dr. Michelle Morse (Dr. Michelle E. Morse). We’ll be talking about charting an equitable path forward in our profession. Slides are almost done!

Had the opportunity to speak today at the IU Pediatric/Adult Pulmonary & Pulm/CCM Research Scholarship Day where I shared my tips on Timelines and Grants during Fellowship Training. Thought I’d share some of my tips here. Feel free to share! IU Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Roberto Machado Gabriel Bosslet

Baby girl ⁦Camille Capers⁩ (far R) just finished 4 wk run in “Brooklyn-the Musical” @ Highlands Playhouse in NC. I am her biggest fan. I keep telling her to smile for these publicity photos, she insists that she must be “in character” for the photo. Who’s right?

Getting started with the #ActionCollaborativeforBlackMen in Medicine AAMC National Medical Association UT Southwestern News Quinn Capers, IV Cato Laurencin Montague Cobb-Institute Niva Lubin-Johnson Leon McDougle, MD, MPH Walter Jack Lanier SAMPL SNMA Gayle King Nathaniel E Burleson

If U believe that enhancing #Diversity in medicine will improve outcomes, U act accordingly. You shake off the inertia and adopt strategies that work. If U don't believe it, then you'll keep doing things the way you've always done them. So let's review the evidence. MHIF

Our board of directors recently convened in Chicago to learn about health care issues our industry partners are addressing and to discuss AMAF health equity initiatives. We are thankful for their leadership, service and support! #AMAF #Leadership #HealthEquity #Service

Congrats Dr. Ebony Boulware! 🎉

Thoughts on racism for nurses...
Note: I am not saying only nurses need this information. I teach nurses. This is my lane.

In my DEI work, I hear the same statements from nurses repeatedly. I want to share a few and discuss why they are problematic.

Congratulations to @huprez17 on his election into the National Academy of Medicine - one of the highest honors in health and medicine, recognizing individuals who have shown outstanding professional achievement and a commitment to service.
#HowardForward
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Quinn Capers, IV I didn’t realize you had left your position at Ohio State, sir! What a devastating loss for us. 😭 I am a nurse and a lecture I saw from you about racial disparities in healthcare still sticks with me. I still share those facts with HCWs I know all the time.

As a first-year cardiology fellow, I have worked with a lot of different medical students and residents. Here are some of the traits that I have seen among my favorite medical students and residents, and those I try to emulate:

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Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread...

This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were four white male police officers surrounding two Black teen girls. 1/16

IM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,
Global Diversity Awareness Speaker Series
Dr. Zahid Ahmad presents
“Health Disparities for Patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia”. Wednesday, Oct. 19, at noon.
To register bit.ly/3D2IHId

To commemorate my upcoming half century, just did my first Half Ironman. Learned a lot about #commitment , #health , and #life on this journey. Fortunate on so many levels to be able to do this. My way of trying to #practicewhatIpreach

We salute the International Medical Graduate (IMG) physicians who have trained in our residency program over the past decade. Our program is enriched by the presence of IMGs and from the global knowledge they bring! Salahuddin Kazi Thomas Wang, MD UT Southwestern News #IMGweek