The role of an academic emergency department in advancing equity and justice

Alden M Landry^{1

2}, Italo Brown³, Andra L Blomkalns³, Richard E Wolfe²

Affiliations

¹ Office Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Alden M Landry et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Sep.

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. 2021 Sep;28(9):1087-1090.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14164. Epub 2020 Nov 21.

Alden M Landry^{1

2}, Italo Brown³, Andra L Blomkalns³, Richard E Wolfe²

¹ Office Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: anti-racism; diversity; health equity; implicit bias; inclusion; social justice.

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