Monday, May 4, 2020, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Denise Raynor, MD, MPH, Professor Emerita, School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory College

“Ah, you’re a doctor?” Exploring Experiences of African Americans in Medicine

Building on her own experiences in medical school, residency, and academic medicine, perinatologist Denise Raynor, who retired from her position as Director of the OB/GYN Residency Program at Grady’s Perinatal Center in 2009, is currently developing a book on racial bias in medical education and its impact on disparities in health outcomes. As she has said, there’s been very little change in that area since she began medical school at Vanderbilt in 1980. No less impactful for being more implicit than explicit, such bias continues to be an invisible hand that touches all interactions in healthcare, between colleagues, staff and patients. Perhaps in bringing the subject out of the shadows and into the light, through talks like this one and talks she’s been offering her OLLI students, as well, and, finally, through the book she’s now got in the works, Denise will help further the change that’s been so slow in coming, however badly needed for so long.