Embracing diversity in dermatology: Creation of a culture of equity and inclusion in dermatology
Int J Womens Dermatol
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2021 Aug 5;7(4):378-382.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijwd.2021.08.002.
eCollection 2021 Sep.
Authors
Seemal R Desai
1
2
,
Rayva Khanna
3
,
Donald Glass
4
,
Murad Alam
5
,
Vicky Barrio
6
,
Lars E French
7
8
,
Mona Gohara
9
,
Lynn McKinley-Grant
10
,
Valerie Harvey
11
,
Candrice Heath
12
,
Kavita Mariwalla
13
,
Alice Pentland
14
,
Melissa Piliang
15
,
Crystal Pourciau
16
,
Susan Taylor
17
,
Peggy Wu
18
,
Pearl Grimes
19
,
Henry W Lim
20
Affiliations
1
Innovative Dermatology, Plano, Texas.
2
Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
3
Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
4
Department of Dermatology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
5
Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
6
Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California.
7
Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Munich University of Ludwig Maximilian, Munich, Germany.
8
Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.
9
Department of Dermatology, Yale University of School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
10
Department of Dermatology, Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
11
Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group, Newport News, Virginia.
12
Department of Dermatology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
13
Mariwalla Dermatology, West Islip, New York.
14
Department of Dermatology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
15
Department of Dermatology and Dermatopathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
16
Department of Dermatology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee.
17
Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
18
Department of Dermatology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California.
19
Vitiligo & Pigmentation Institute of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
20
Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan.
PMID:
34621948
PMCID:
PMC8484952
DOI:
10.1016/j.ijwd.2021.08.002
No abstract available
Keywords:
DEI; Diversity; dermatologic societies; equity; inclusion; organizations.
Publication types
Editorial