Creating Successful Institutional Culture Change Initiatives at Academic Medical Centers

This webinar will explore culture change initiatives in the context of a basic science setting. A panel of inclusion and diversity leaders at academic medical centers will describe and critique their own initiatives, and share their initiative’s effects, successes and missed opportunities in three areas: engaging basic scientists v. clinicians, addressing power dynamics, and understanding intersectionality. Attendees will then participate in facilitated discussions regarding any perceived need for culture change in the basic sciences, possible drivers for change, their own institution’s inclusion-based initiatives, and potential success of the programs presented at their academic medical center.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to describe culture change and inclusion initiatives at three institutions, with a focus on basic science communities.
2. Participants will be able to compare effects of culture change and inclusion initiatives on learners, faculty and staff that are clinically or non-clinically based.
3. Participants will be able to consider the effects of power dynamics in academic medicine and their relationship to inclusion efforts.

Moderated by:

Julie E. Tetzlaff, PhD, Associate Dean of Postdoctoral Affairs and Graduate Career Development, Associate Professor of Patho, Medical College of Wisconsin

Speakers:

Elizabeth Ellinas, MD, Associate Dean of Women's Leadership, Medical College of Wisconsin

John P. Cullen, PhD, Director, Diversity and Inclusion, CTSI, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Leon McDougle, MD, Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion; Chief Diversity Officer, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; The OSU Wexner Medical Center