A call to action: UF surgery resident on the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusion in the field
At the last in-person meeting of the American College of Surgeons in 2019, Jordan McKean noticed something missing.
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Pancreatic cancer trials fail to include minorities despite worse outcomes
Kelly Herremans, M.D. Despite the fact that certain racial and ethnic minorities get pancreatic cancer more often, are diagnosed at a younger age and die sooner, clinical trials fail to include representative proportions of non-White patients at every phase of study, according to research that was selected for…
Black and Latinx surgeons continue to hit glass ceiling in America
Richmond, Va. — Among the upper echelons of academic surgery, Black and Latinx representation has remained flat over the past six years, according to a study published today in JAMA Surgery by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and University of Florida Health. The study…
