Health Disparities

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: Taylor Dickerson, MD According to a recent study, patients with skin of color waited three times longer to be formally diagnosed with psoriasis and were almost four times more likely to be biopsied compared to non-Hispanic patients. And as a result, these patients were more likely to present with severe disease, greatly impacting their overall quality of life. To learn more about this study’s findings and how we can address racial

Guest: Maureen Brogan, MD From emerging treatment options to finding new ways to combat healthcare disparities, a lot was covered at the 2021 American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Annual Meeting. And here to talk about some of the latest updates is Dr. Maureen Brogan, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Clinical Director in the Division of Nephrology at Montefiore Medical Center.

Guest: John Friedewald, MD The 2021 American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting covered everything from inequities in organ allocation to policy updates. Here to share those and other key takeaways from the conference is Dr. John Friedewald, Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

It’s an unfortunate reality that cultural trauma has impacted practically every aspect of American Indians’ lives—including their access to quality healthcare. Diving into this issue affecting millions of Americans are Mark Masselli, Margaret Flinter, and their guest Dr. Donald Warne, who discusses this impact and the key strategies that aim to resolve these disparities, such as mentoring Native youth in health professions.

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Gary Puckrein, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Minority Quality Forum, a not-for-profit organization that he founded in 1998. The Forum addresses the critical need for strengthening national and local efforts to use evidence-based, data-driven initiatives to help eliminate the disproportionate burden of premature death and preventable illness for racial and ethnic minorities and other special populations.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for Social Responsibility, both of which earned the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Geiger is considered the founder of the Community Health Center movement in this country and discusses his decades of activism for equality in health care.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Founder and CEO of the Patient Navigator Institute. Dr. Freeman discusses his pioneering work in the patient navigation movement, which seeks to reduce health disparities by using specially trained patient navigators to assist the underserved population in removing barriers to care.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: James Webster, MD Despite dramatic improvement in American health and life expectancy over the past several decades, racial and ethnic minorities have not benefited equally from this progress. Dr. James Webster, professor of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and president of the Chicago Board of Health, discusses how improving cultural competence in health care workers can reduce disparities amongst patients. Dr