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Status Key: Completed in AY 2022 Completed & Ongoing for AY 2023 New for AY 2023 On time for AY 2023 Restructured for AY 2023

Infrastructure

  • DEI Journal Club initiated

    Status: On time

    Articles discussed Sep 2021 relevant to DEI

    Person/Dept Responsible: Christie DeMason

Access and Success

  • Create monetary awards for a URM student interested in ENT

    Status: On time

    “Make a trail” award awarded

    Person/Dept Responsible:

  • Mock Interviews x 20 done

    Status: On time

    Nov, Dec 2020

    Person/Dept Responsible: A. Drake

  • Second look at OTO-HNS

    1/25/2021

    Status: On time

    Online Zoom call with prior graduates of OTO-HNS

    Person/Dept Responsible: R. Buckmire

  • Hire an under-represented faculty

    Status: On time

    In progress

    Person/Dept Responsible: Dr Dell Yarbrough

Climate and Intra/Intergroup Relations

    1. David Brown (University of Michigan) gave Grand Rounds in August on diversity
    2. Wellness as you care for a diverse patient population
    3. “The History and Legacy of Racial Segregation in US Hospitals”
    Status: On time
    1. Dr. David Brown (Michigan) – “Otolaryngology Diversity: The Urgency of Now”, Aug 12, 2020
    2. Sep 16, 2020; Grand Rounds – Dr. Duane Taylor – Maintaining Your Health and Wellness as You Care for a Diverse Patient Population
    3. Dr Ellis Arjmand, LSU, 4/21/21

    Person/Dept Responsible: OTO-HNS

  • 50% of faculty to participate in at least 1 diversity workshop provided by UNC

    Status: On time

    Bias 101 Grand Rounds, Oct 28, 2020

    JOINT WITH GENETICS DEPT. (40 faculty)

    Person/Dept Responsible: OTO-HNS

Curriculum and Scholarship

  • Grand Rounds on Civil Rights in Healthcare

    Status: On time

    Nov 25, 2020, by Zainab Farzal: “History of Civil Rights in Health Care: Hospital Desegregation and Beyond”

    Person/Dept Responsible:

Community Engagement

  • Joint talks with other departments

    Status: On time

    Joint Table Talks with Anesthesiology

    Person/Dept Responsible:

  • Head & Neck outreach clinic to serve underserved community in Durham, NC

    Status: On time

    Dr. Lumley organized an effort to help diagnose and treat patients with cancers of the head and neck, as part of “Women’s Health Awareness”. This planning has been completed but the actual clinic was cancelled due to COVID and will be rescheduled.

    Person/Dept Responsible: Catherine Lumley, MD