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Highlighted Theme: Racism in Research and Medical Care
PAS Lab
Joseph Wright, MD MPH
Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer
Pediatrics
University of Maryland Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH
Vice-Chair, Community Engagement, Division DIrector, Adolescent Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
We are beginning to more clearly understand the underlying biology of chronic stress, including that which accompanies the lived experience of racism. The biological effects of such historically mediated trauma may linger even in individuals who have seemingly escaped the more toxic environments to which their marginalized ancestors were exposed. Linking this basic science with the evolving work defining the deleterious impacts of all forms of racism on observed physiologic disruptions is critically important to understanding how the body biologically embeds trauma. In particular, understanding the epigenetic basis for intergenerational transmission of the effects of longstanding, systemically-rooted discrimination obviates the fallacy of race as a biologic construct and can elucidate mitigation and resilience strategies.
The panel assembled is comprised of subject matter experts who also represent pediatric academic societal leadership and are committed to the incorporation of basic and translational research in the reduction of health disparities and advancement of equity.
Session Chair/Moderator: Joseph Wright [Co-Chair, APS Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity; and Past Chair, AAP Task Force on Bias and Discrimination] – Introduction: At the intersection of science, equity and social justice
• James Jarvis [Past Chair, AAP Committee on Native American Child Health; and APS Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity] - Basic science of historic marginalization: What we know
• Tamera Coyne-Beasley [APS Council; Co-Chair APS Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity; and Past President, Society on Adolescent Medicine and Health] - Clinical implications of racism
• Moira Szilagyi [President, AAP] - Pediatric approach to trauma, treatment, and resilience
Speaker: Joseph L. Wright, MD MPH – University of Maryland Medical System
Speaker: James N. Jarvis, MD – Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
Speaker: Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH – University of Alabama at Birmingham
Speaker: Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP – University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine