Schedule of Events
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, May 4th
Thursday, May 5th
Friday, May 6th
#RacismReckoningMed22
**Preliminary Schedule
Subject To Change**
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
The Racial Justice Concert Series (RJCS), a collaboration among Johns Hopkins students, faculty, and staff, harnesses the power of music to bring awareness to issues of racism in Baltimore, and to support Baltimore organizations that focus on racial justice work. The RJCS features performances by Baltimore musicians and provides a platform for racial justice organizations to educate audiences about their efforts. The RJCS is cooperatively produced and funded by the Johns Hopkins Program in Arts, Humanities, & Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, and Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab.
On Wed., May 4th, 2022 at 7pm EST Baltimore-based singer/multi-instrumentalist/producer John Tyler and band will perform in support of Baltimore’s Nomu Nomu, an artist collaborative and resource center. 22-year old phenomenon John Tyler is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of the Love Groove Festival. Tyler has released four albums, produced dozens of artists in the DMV area, and appeared at the Rams Head, Firefly Festival, and Baltimore’s Artscape. This spring he embarked on a multi-city tour to promote his latest album, “Free Spirit” and on May 7th Tyler will be featured in Mayor Scott’s inaugural arts festival Baltimore by Baltimore’s (“BxB”).
The performance will be streamed live via Youtube from Baltimore’s Creative Alliance.
Click here for information and to acquire a FREE concert ticket.
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
#RacismReckoningMed22
Wednesday, May 4th
Thursday, May 5th
Friday, May 6th
I. Opening: 9:30am—12pm
9:30-9:45 Coffee, registration
9:45-10:00 Introduction by Conference Committee
Adam Biggs, Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Medicine, JHU; Instructor, African American Studies and US History, University of South Carolina Lancaster
Kimberly Gallon, Associate Professor, History, Purdue University; Founder & Executive Director, COVID Black
Jeremy Greene, Director, Institute of the History of Medicine; Professor, Medicine & History of Medicine; Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, JHU
Graham Mooney, Associate Professor, History of Medicine, Epidemiology, JHU
Ayah Nuriddin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows; Lecturer, Council of the Humanities and African American Studies, Princeton University
Ahmed Ragab, Associate Professor, History of Medicine, JHU
Ezelle Sanford, Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, JHU; Assistant Professor, History, Carnegie Mellon University
Alexandre White, Assistant Professor, Sociology & History of Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, JHU
10:00-11:00 Keynote with Dorothy Roberts
Professor of Africana Studies, Law & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society
Introduction by Ayah Nuriddin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows; Lecturer, Council of the Humanities and African American Studies, Princeton University
Reckoning with Race and Racism in Academic Medicine
11:00-12:00 PLENARY PANEL
Moderator: Jeremy Greene Director, Institute of the History of Medicine; Professor, Medicine & History of Medicine; Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, JHU
Deirdre Cooper Owens, Professor, History of Medicine; Director, Humanities in Medicine, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sherita Hill Golden Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism; Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, JHU
Evelynn Hammonds, Chair, History of Science & Professor, African American Studies & Social & Behavior Sciences, Harvard University
Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Africana Studies, Law & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society
Keith Wailoo, Professor, History, Princeton University & President, American Association for the History of Medicine
[LUNCH 12-12:45]
II. Legacies of Segregation: 1-3:30pm
12:50-1:00 Introduction: Martha S. Jones, Professor, History & SNF Angora Institute, JHU
1:00-2:00 PANEL 1: Legacies of Segregation and Desegregation in Academic Medical Centers
Moderator: Nathan Connolly, Professor, History, JHU
1:00-1:10 Leila Morsy, Academic Lead in Teaching and Learning, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
Carnegie and Rockefeller’s Philanthropic Legacy: Exclusion of African Americans from the Medical Profession
1:10-1:20 Ezelle Sanford, Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, JHU; Assistant Professor, History, Carnegie Mellon University
Historicizing Racial Segregation in American Hospitals: Johns Hopkins Hospital and Beyond
1:20-1:30 Philip Jackson Merrill, CEO & Founder, Nanny Jack & Co, LLC
Black Medical Pioneer: Life and Legacy of Dr. George W. Kennard
1:30-1:40 Margo Williams, Intramural Research Fellow, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Searching for Care in a Segregated City: Detroit’s Black Hospitals and the Integration of American Healthcare, 1945-1975
1:40-2:00 Discussion
[BREAK 2:00-2:10]
2:10-3:00 PANELS 2a & 2b: SYNCHRONOUS
Panel 2a. Contesting Racism and Segregation in the History of Mental Health and Psychiatry – Room 150 East
Moderator: Ahmed Ragab, Associate Professor, History of Medicine, JHU
2:10-2:20 Kylie Smith, Associate Professor, History & Nursing, Emory University
The Crippling Preoccupation with Race: Segregation and Psychiatry in the American South
2:20-2:30 Ayah Nuriddin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows; Lecturer, Council of the Humanities and African American Studies, Princeton University
Psychiatric Jim Crow: Desegregation and Black Mental Health
2:30-2:40 Nic John Ramos, Assistant Professor, History & Africana Studies, Drexel University
New Racism: Where Psychiatry and Bodily Sickness Meet
2:40-3:00 Discussion
Panel 2b. Segregation of General Medical Providers – Room 150 West
Moderator: Karen Kruse Thomas, Historian, JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health
2:10-2:20 Daryn Glassbrook, Executive Director & Valencia Belle, President, Mobile Medical Museum
Each One, Teach One: Documenting the History of African American Nursing Professionals from the Segregation Era
2:20-2:30 Hafeeza Anchrum, Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society, University of Pennsylvania
“We Did It All”: Nursing at Mercy Douglass Hospital in Philadelphia, PA
2:30-2:40 Robert Bagley, Doctoral Student, History, Saint Louis University
St. Mary’s Infirmary and Black Medical Care in St. Louis Missouri
2:40-3:00 Discussion
3:00-3:30 PANELS 3a, 3b, 3c: SYNCHRONOUS FLASH PANELS – VIRTUAL ONLY
In person attendees will need to log on with their personal devices and headphones to attend.
Panel 3a. Diversity and Inequality in the Medical Profession
Moderator: Elizabeth O’Brien, Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, JHU
Ugochi T. Aguwa et al, MD Candidate, JHU
Racial Diversity Within U.S. Residencies: Trends from 2011 to 2019
Omer Elmahdi Saeed et al, Medical Student, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Demographics and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Medical School Matriculants and Graduates Over the Last Two Decades
Juliana Madzia, MD/PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Inequality in Medical Professionalization and Specialization
Panel 3b. Racism, Medical Resources, and Research
Moderator: Alexandre White, Assistant Professor, Sociology & History of Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, JHU
Mansi Shah, Family Medicine, & Oliver Rollins, Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
What Role Does Race Play in Family Medicine Research?
Svea Closser, Associate Professor, International Health JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health
Hierarchy, Race and PPE in Baltimore Academic Hospitals in the Early COVID Pandemic
Elodie Edwards-Grossi, Associate Professor, American Studies & Historical Sociology, Université Paris Dauphine
Healing in Black and White: Ethnography of the Potentialities and Limits of Antiracist Curricula in Psychiatric Residency Programs in California
Panel 3c. Racism, Intersectionality, and Reparative Justice
Moderator: Mary Fissell, Professor, History of Medicine, JHU
Vanessa Nunes, Brooklyn Hospital Center
Resident Experiences, Reproductive Justice and Healthcare Reparations: A Black Woman’s Journey in Academic Medicine
Abiba Salahou, MD Candidate, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
How Racism Continues to Vilify and Impact Healthcare for Black Women
Valencia Walker, Associate Chief Diversity and Health Equity Officer, Nationwide Children’s Hospital & Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, Vice President & Chief Health Equity Officer, Indiana University Health
By Tropes and Tokens – The Experimentation, Exploitation and Exclusion of Black Women by Academic Medicine
[BREAK 3:30-4:00]
III. Earned Mistrust / Rumor and Reputation: 4-6pm
4:00-5:00 PANEL 4: Rumor and Reputation: Racism and Risk in American Medical Schools
Moderator: Jim Downs, Professor, Civil War Era Studies & History, Gettysburg College
4:10 –4:20 Chris Willoughby, Fellow, History of Medicine & Allied Sciences, Huntington Library & Visiting Scholar, American Studies, Harvard University
Imperialism and Race in Nineteenth-Century United States Medical Schools
4:20 – 4:30 Jessica Hester, PhD Candidate, History of Medicine, JHU
Dead for the Doctors: Graverobbing, Dissection, and Self-Determination in Philadelphia’s Black Press
4:30 – 4:40 Courtney Thompson, Assistant Professor, History of Science & Technology, Mississippi State University
The Lost Cause in the Postbellum Medical Classroom and Private Practice
4:40 – 4:50 Adam Biggs, Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Medicine, JHU; Instructor, African American Studies and US History, University of South Carolina Lancaster
The Miseducation of Louis T. Wright: Trials at Harvard and Howard
4:50 – 5:00 Discussion
5:00-6:00 PANEL 5: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Activism
Moderator: Steven Ragsdale, Healthcare Management & Cultural Competency Consultant, Connecting the Dots Consulting; Associate Faculty, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Adjunct Professor, Towson University
5:00-5:20 Ijeoma Kola, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Health, Humanities, and Society, University of Notre Dame
Wheezing in Protest: Medicine’s Dismissal of the Asthma Crisis in Black Neighborhoods During the Civil Rights Movement
5:20-5:40 Evelynn Hammonds, Chair, History of Science & Professor, African American Studies & Social & Behavior Sciences, Harvard University
Living and Dying at the Intersections: AIDS Activism and the Politics of Public Health, Part 2
5:40-6:00 Discussion
Discussant: Roxcelanna ’Nia’ Redmond, Community Organizer, East Baltimore Historical Library
Friday, May 6th, 2022
#RacismReckoningMed22
Wednesday, May 4th
Thursday, May 5th
Friday, May 6th
9:30-9:45 Coffee, registration
IV. Academic Medicine and the Reproduction of Race and Racism: 10-12:30pm
10:00-11:00 PANEL 6: Racism and Repair in Academic Medicine
Moderator: Minkah Makalani, Associate Professor, History and Director of the Center for Africana Studies, JHU
10:00-10:10 Robert Higgins, President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham
Pride and Prejudice in Surgery-the Complicated History of Vivien Thomas
10:10-10:20 Margo Peyton, MD Candidate, JHU School of Medicine
Segregated in Life and Death: Johns Hopkins and the Racial Science of Tuberculosis
10:20-10:30 Jules Lipoff, Director, Penn Dermatology PRIDE Clinic & Assistant Professor, Clinical Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania
Grappling with Our History of Racism in Dermatology: The Legacy of Albert Kligman
10:30-10:40 Kamna Balhara, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Erica Shelton, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, & Gabe Kelen, Director, Emergency Medicine, JHU
Reflection on Our Past as We Embark on an Anti-racist Future: An Emergency Medicine Perspective
10:40-11:00 Discussion
[BREAK 11-11:15]
11:15-12:30 PANEL 7: Academic Medicine and the Engines of Racial Science
Moderator: Alexandre White, Assistant Professor, Sociology & History of Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, JHU
11:20-11:30 Ashley Andreou, MD Candidate, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Re-examining the Utility and Validity of Benign Ethnic Neutropenia: A Narrative Literature Review
11:30-11:40 Lundy Braun, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Africana Studies, Brown University
Racism and Medical Algorithms: A Historical Analysis of Pulmonary Function Tests
11:40-11:50 Amaka Eneanya, Head of Strategies and Operations, Fresenius Medical Care
Lesson Learned from Using Black Race to Diagnose Kidney Disease
11:50-12:00 Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., Associate Professor, History, University of Houston
eGFR, Racial Science, and the Rise of a Duopoly in Dialysis Care
12:00-12:10 Amy Moran-Thomas, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Case of the Oximeter: A Social Science Perspective on Unequal Medical Devices
12:10-12:30 Discussion
[LUNCH: 12:30-1:30]
V. Moving from reckoning to repair: 1:30-4:00pm
1:30-2:30 PANEL 8: The REPAIR Project: Reparations & Anti-Institutional Racism Partnerships Between Medical Schools
Moderator: Samuel K. Roberts, Associate Professor, History & Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
Antoine Johnson, PhD Candidate Approved, History of Health Science, University of California San Francisco
Aimee Medeiros, Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of California San Francisco
Jason Glenn Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center
Kristina Bridges, Senior Research Associate, Family Medicine & Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center
2:30-3:00 PANELS 9a, 9b, 9c: SYNCHRONOUS VIRTUAL FLASH PANELS
In person attendees will need to log on with their personal devices and headphones to attend.
Panel 9a. Anti-racist Teaching Within and Outside the Medical Curriculum
Moderator: Ayah Nuriddin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows; Lecturer, Council of the Humanities and African American Studies, Princeton University
Nicolle K. Strand, Assistant Professor, Center for Urban Bioethics & Director of Equity and Culture Initiatives, Temple University School of Medicine
Creating a Faculty-Student Task Force to Improve Inclusivity in Pre-Clinical Curriculum
Penelope Lusk, PhD Candidate, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Knowledge, Transmitting Power: A Critical Historiography of Medical Education
Ameisha Tutwiler, Katherine Schaub, & Elizabeth Shimoura, MD Candidates, University of Toledo
We Can Do Better: A Student Developed, Student Driven, Antiracist Preclinical Curriculum
Panel 9b. Systemic Racism in Medical Training
Moderator: Ahmed Ragab, Associate Professor, History of Medicine, JHU
Adriana Pero, et al, MD Candidate, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Perpetuating Racism and Bias: A Single-Site Analysis of the Impact of Segregated Care on Third-Year Medical Students
Nkiruka Emeagwali, M.S., M.D., Ph.D. and Founder, LYBL Inc & Jasmine Bridges, Faith in Engineering LLC
Faith-based Strategies to Recognize, Analyze and Overcome Microaggressions, Systemic Racism and White Supremacy in Medical Education
Nientara Anderson, PGY2, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
J. Corey Williams, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Using Admissions to Fight Racism in Medicine: Piloting a Structural Competency Assessment in Holistic Review
Panel 9c. Anti-Racism Beyond the Curriculum
Moderator: Graham Mooney, Associate Professor, History of Medicine, Epidemiology, JHU
Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Social Media as an Effect Tool for Antiracism in Medicine
John Chenault, Associate Professor and Director of Anti-Racism Initiatives, Undergraduate Medical Education Unit, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Medicine and the Black Body: Race, Racial Slavery, & Medical Apartheid in US History
Aysha Khoury, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Walter Conwell, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer & Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development, Morehouse School of Medicine
Bringing Healing in Academic Medicine – Restorative Justice as a method to being antiracist
[BREAK 3:00-3:15]
3:15-4:30 PANEL 10: Next Steps: Beyond Antiracist Curricula
Moderator: Jeremy Greene, Director, Institute of the History of Medicine; Professor, Medicine & History of Medicine; Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, JHU
David A. Acosta, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges
Zoe Cosner, Medical Student, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Fernando De Maio, Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, American Medical Association; Professor, Sociology, DePaul University
Ike Enenmoh, Medical Student, JHU School of Medicine
Kim Gallon, Associate Professor, History, Purdue University; Founder & Executive Director, COVID Black
Jason Glenn, Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center
Sherita Hill Golden, Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism; Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer, JHU
Janet Record, Assistant Professor, Medicine; Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, JHU