Health Disparities in Diabetes
Annual Gordon Lecture Features Egede, May 15
Dr. Leonard Egede of the Medical College of Wisconsin will deliver the annual Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture on May 15 at 2 in Lipsett Amphitheater, as part of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series (WALS).
The talk is titled “Addressing Health Disparities in Diabetes: Intersection of Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities” and can be viewed online at https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=53833.
Egede is professor of medicine, the inaugural Milwaukee Community chair in health equity research and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is known for creating interventions to improve health outcomes for high-risk racial and ethnic minorities.
His talk will focus on the evolution of the understanding of health inequalities and their impact on health outcomes for adults with diabetes. The focus will be promising interventions to meet social needs in adults with diabetes and novel policy-focused studies that can address upstream structural drivers of poor health outcomes.
The Gordon lecture is named in honor of the former assistant U.S. surgeon general and special assistant to former NIH Director Dr. James Wyngaarden. Topics focus on clinical research and epidemiology. Speakers are selected by NIH’s Office of Disease Prevention.
Learn more on the website at https://oir.nih.gov/wals.—Diana Gomez