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Commission for Women and Diversity

Vision
To achieve a radiology profession that celebrates diversity and actively promotes inclusion at all levels of training, practice and leadership.

Mission
The Commission for Women and Diversity will embrace and advance diversity and inclusion through equity, access and innovation for the benefit of our patients, our profession and the 新澳门六合彩官网.

For additional information, see the 新澳门六合彩官网 Diversity page.

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Commission Goals

To increase awareness and recognition of the value created by diversity, and make the radiological professions welcoming and inclusive for women and minorities underrepresented in medicine
To improve professional opportunities, participation, representation and contribution of women and minorities to the radiological professions
To improve organizational and institutional performance by leveraging diversity

Leadership & Staff

Johnson Benjamin Lightfoote, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网

Chair

Angelica Vergel De Dios

Staff

Carla Brathwaite

Staff

Roster

Kemi Babagbemi, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Jenny Teresa Bencardino, MD	Bonnie C Davis, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网
Carolynn M DeBenedectis, MD	Michelle L Dorsey, MD, MPH, F新澳门六合彩官网	Iris Catrice Gibbs, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网
Gloria J Guzman Perez-Carrillo, MD, MSc, MPH	Jennifer A Harvey, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil
Michele H Johnson, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Akash Chander Joshi, BS, MB	Nolan J. Kagetsu, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网
Faisal Khosa, MBBS, F新澳门六合彩官网	Kirti Kulkarni, MD	Kirti Magudia, MD, Ph.D
Shearwood McClelland, MD	Martha Menchaca, MD, PhD	Janice May Newsome, MD
Alexander Norbash, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Pari Vijay Pandharipande, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Amy Patel, MD
Anuradha T Rao, MD	Zarine K Shah, MBBS	Lucy B Spalluto, MD
Kerry L Thomas, MD	Jorge Alberto Vidal, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Vaz Zavaletta, MD, Ph.D

Committee for Diversity & Inclusion

Gail Morgan, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网 - Chair	Belinda Asare, BSc, BSN (MedStud Rep)	Bonnie Davis, MD	Bao-Tran Doan, MD
Gloria Guzman Perez-Carrillo, MD MSc	Michele Johnson, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Nolan Kagetsu, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Randy Miles, MD
Alexander Norbash, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Hannah Perry, MD	Tina Poussaint, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Raymond Tu, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网
Jorge Vidal, MD	Raymond Wynn, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Michail Higgins, MD, MPH (RFS Rep)

Committee for Women

Susan Ackerman, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网 - Chair	Jenny Bencardino, MD	Meredith Englander, MD	Kavita Garg, MD
Iris Gibbs, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网	Sonia Gupta, MD	Amy Hara, MD	Katherine Maturen, MD, MS
Pari Pandharipande, MD	Amy Patel, MD	Kristin Porter, MD, PhD	Galareh Sadigh, MD
Ami Shah, MD	Lucy Spalluto, MD	Margaret Szabunio, MD, F新澳门六合彩官网
Kirti Magudia, MD, PhD (RFS Rep)

Diversity Toolkit

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12 Steps to Make Your Practice More Inclusive, Diverse and Welcoming

by Johnson B. Lightfoote, MD, MBA, F新澳门六合彩官网

Prime the pipeline – Give a talk to medical students, college students, even middle school students from nontraditional backgrounds to share your enthusiasm for the radiological sciences or the STEMM fields in general. Sixth graders love pictures of bones!
Close to the customer – Hold a focus group with women or underrepresented minority patients in your community to understand their take on radiology and radiation oncology. They certainly know a bit about the wondrous imaging care we deliver, but we may not know how much they appreciate our compassionate expertise.
Let me show you how – Become a mentor to a woman or underrepresented minority in your practice, whether paraprofessional, technologist, medical student or budding radiologist. Priceless!
Cultural competency – Think about how well your practice communicates with the wide variety of cultures that you work with daily; make a plan to better understand and improve personal interactions and communication with one specific group.
Get centered – Are diversity and inclusion at the core of your practice’s mission? Should they be? Not every practice needs a strategic plan, but if you have one, think about how it serves your future and your stakeholders.
Lead by example – When fellow radiologists, customer clinicians and administrators see us radiologists and radiation oncologists taking the lead in advancing diversity and inclusion, we earn their admiration and invite emulation.
Walk a mile in my shoes – Take a look at an interaction (contentious or compassionate) between professionals or patients and imagine how you’d react if you were one of the participants.
Take your show on the road – Visit civic groups, churches, city council or volunteer organizations and let them know not just about your high technology, but about the diversity and service commitment of the people in your practice.
Mind the gap – Is there a disparity in the care your women, LGBT or minority patients receive? Is there a gap between your practice’s aspirations for inclusiveness and the actual representation of underrepresented minorities and women in your group? Finding and minding the gap will invite solutions.
Take your own pulse – How do people in your practice appreciate the inclusiveness and diversity of our working environment? Invite frequent meetings of your group to discover how your most important assets think about how welcoming your practice really is.
Movin’ on up – Professional advancement is a great way to enhance an atmosphere of diversity and inclusion. Make sure you’re offering leadership and development opportunities to everyone (radiologists, radiation oncologists and paraprofessionals alike) in your organization; remember that women and underrepresented minorities are often underspoken or overlooked.
Exploit diversity – Unique talents and diverse needs can be exploited to great advantage in areas such as working hours, working locations, fractional employment, specialty differentiation, customer service. Welcome, leverage and creatively exploit the diverse professional capacities of your team. Enjoy the resulting return to your bottom line.

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