Changing Who Has a Seat and Voice at the Table: How the Academic Pediatric Association is Responding to Systemic Racism

Adam Cohen; Kimberly Montez; Colin Orr; Jessica Konrath; Uchechi Oddiri; Christopher J Russell; Lauren Gambill; Jo-Ann Nesiama; Paul J Chung; Kenya McNeal-Trice

doi:10.1016/j.acap.2022.01.002

Changing Who Has a Seat and Voice at the Table: How the Academic Pediatric Association is Responding to Systemic Racism

Acad Pediatr. 2022 Apr;22(3):352-355. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2022.01.002. Epub 2022 Jan 12.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hospital Medicine, (Adam Cohen), Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: Adcohen.md@gmail.com.
² Department of Pediatrics, (Kimberly Montez), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC.
³ Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, (Colin Orr), Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
⁴ Academic Pediatrics Association, (Jessica Konrath), McLean, Va.
⁵ Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, (Uchechi Oddiri), Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY.
⁶ Division of Hospital Medicine, (Christopher J. Russell), Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles Calif; Department of Pediatrics, (Christopher J. Russell), Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Calif.
⁷ Pediatrics University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, (Lauren Gambill), Pediatric Hospitalist Dell Children's Medical Center of Central, Austin, Tex.
⁸ Division of Emergency Medicine, (Jo-Ann Nesiama), UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Tex.
⁹ Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, (Paul J. Chung), Pasadena, CA; University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics, (Kenya McNeal-Trice), Division of Hospital Medicine and Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.

PMID: 35032709
DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2022.01.002

Abstract

The Academic Pediatrics Association has taken multiple steps over the last 2 years to incorporate the lenses of anti-racism and social justice into our mission and work. In this commentary, we discuss the creation and work of the Anti-Racism and Diversity Task Force, which was charged by the Academic Pediatrics Association's Board of Directors with identifying strategies to promote anti-racism and advance the diversity, equity and inclusion agenda.

MeSH terms

Child
Humans
Pediatrics*
Racism*
Social Justice
Systemic Racism