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Diversity
Diversity is one of Weill Cornell Medicine’s core values and is essential to achieving excellence in patient care, research and education.
Diversity and gender equity, both in our student body and in the workforce, will enable us to develop new and better solutions to the complex problems we face in medicine and healthcare. Weill Cornell Medicine has a wide variety of initiatives that support women, men, the LGBT community and individuals from diverse, underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds in science and medicine.
News
Four Faculty Members Named Crain’s Notable Women in Healthcare
Drs. Laura Riley, Barbara Hempsetad, Silvia Formenti and Lisa Newman named in Crain's 2019 Notable Women in Healthcare.
Compared to White Patients, African Americans Experience Different Post-Operative Care After Knee Replacement Surgery
African American patients who underwent knee-replacement surgery were several times more likely than white patients of similar age to be discharged to inpatient facilities for post-operative care.
Study Finds Racial and Other Demographic Disparities in American Board of Surgery Exam Results
Trainees of Hispanic ethnicity, compared with non-Hispanic trainees, were only about 40 percent as likely to pass, on the first try, the final examination for American Board of Surgery certification.
Weill Cornell Graduate School Receives Prestigious Grant to Boost Underrepresented Groups
The Graduate School of Medical Sciences has been awarded a competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a program dedicated to increasing the number and enhancing success.
Views on Diversity
Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean
Our goal is to become a national leader in advancing diversity and inclusion within academic medicine.
Dr. Linnie Golightly, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
We have many activities aimed at building a sense of community at Weill Cornell Medicine. We want everyone here to feel like it is their home.
Dr. Rache Simmons, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
We view diversity as a platform for developing creative solutions to challenging healthcare problems.
Dr. Nelson Sanchez, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Chair of Weill Cornell Medicine’s LGBT Steering Committee
We know that not every doctor is going to be an expert on LGBT healthcare, but we can train everyone to be sensitive to a patient’s needs.