At the core of Dartmouth Health’s diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) mission is a belief that there is great strength in the diversity of our patients, people, and community. A major component of creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for our staff, patients and visitors is taking proactive steps and working with partners to create a healthcare workforce that reflects the growing diversity of our region and nation.
On Thursday, February 9, Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth College and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth will host “A Matter of Life or Death: The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Imperative.” This event, which will be held from 5 to 6 pm EST in-person at the Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall on the Dartmouth campus as well as virtually, will bring together leadership from the institutions for a conversation around the strategies they are implementing to curate a more diverse healthcare workforce by investing in educational and faculty pipeline programs, embracing cultural humility, and fostering a sense of belonging that will ultimately lead to better health outcomes for underrepresented and marginalized communities.
Panelists for this event include:
- Teresa Lyn D. Malcolm, MD, FACOG, MBA, vice president of DEIB at Dartmouth Health
- Shontay Delalue, PhD, senior vice president and senior diversity officer at Dartmouth
- Erika Brown, PhD, dean of faculty affairs at Geisel
- Lisa McBride, PhD, associate dean of DEIB at Geisel
“I’m excited to be on this panel with several of my esteemed colleagues at Dartmouth and Geisel for this important conversation on cultivating a healthcare workforce that looks more like the patient population we serve,” Malcolm said. “By embracing diversity in both the patient-facing and academic sides of medicine, we not only create opportunity for people to join our field who previously had not seen a place for themselves there before; but also benefit our patients by increasing the scope of perspectives and experiences from the people providing their care.”
Register online for this free event by February 6.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.