Race and Bioethics: Amplifying Diverse Voices

How can bioethicists and others better address and reduce racism that unfortunately persists in health care and other areas in the United States and many other countries? Come join us for this important panel of experts, including Harriet Washington (author of the best-selling, prize winner Medical Apartheid), Keisha Ray, PhD (University of Texas McGovern Medical School), Louis Voigt, MD (Chair, Ethics Committee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), and Joanne Suarez (Founder, Latinx Bioethics), to learn how we can best tackle these challenges.

Panelists

Harriet A. Washington
Science Writer and Medical Ethicist
Author of Medical Apartheid, winner of the 2007 National Book Critic Circle Award for Nonfiction
Lecturer, MS in Bioethics, Columbia University

Keisha S. Ray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, McGovern Medical School

Louis P. Voigt, MD
Chair, Ethics Committee
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Joanne Suarez, MBE
Founder & Executive Director, LatinX Bioethics

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