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The mission of the Committee on Professional Diversity is to promote membership and support members of diverse backgrounds, which include gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and religious affiliation. The duties of the committee include addressing issues that affect members’ professional development and career satisfaction, and to promote an environment that encourages personal well-being and contentment as caring physicians, productive professionals and responsible family members.
The ASA Committee on Professional Diversity announces its annual call for proposals for the ASA Mentoring Grant Program in the spring of each year. The goal of this grant is to foster diversity within ASA through mentorship. The program provides funding up to $5,000 to mentor/mentee pairs who submit a project that addresses the goals of the Committee on Professional Diversity. The project may be oriented to research, education, political advocacy, or an organized medicine endeavor that clearly speaks to the mission and duties of the ASA Committee on Professional Diversity.
For questions or comments, please contact DiversityMentor@asahq.org to reach Lauren Keith, staff liaison for CPD.
The Mentoring Grant Program is funded in part by ASA Industry Supporters: Baudax Bio, Edwards Lifesciences, Fresenius Kabi, GE HealthCare, Heron Therapeutics, Masimo, Medtronic, and Merck.
Mary E. Arthur, MD, FASA / Dhruti Diwan, MD & Krishna Naimish Shah
Sparking an Early Interest in Healthcare to Address the Racial and Ethnic Discordance between Patients and Healthcare Professionals
Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD / Tina Vu, MD
Anesthetic Care Throughout (TACT) project
Yuriy Bronshteyn, MD / Blair Costin, MD
Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome and Its' Treatment in a System of Hospitals Across a Large Academic Medical System
Destiny F. Chau, MD / Matthew Green, DO
Implementing a curriculum to identify implicit biases and foster transparency and inclusivity in a diverse workplace.
Franklin Chiao, MD, MBA, MS, MSc, FASA / Yunghang Chan
Diversity Race Ethnicity Impact on Evaluation Language and Scores (DREIELS)
Elizabeth T. Drum, MD, FASA / Jose Sosa-Herrera, MD, DABA & Iman Soliman, MS4
Who Chooses Pediatric Anesthesia?
Paul S. Garcia, MD, PhD / Alice Daramola
Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Delirium at Columbia University Medical Center
Eric Heinz, MD, PhD / Sarah Birk, MPH
Effect of exogenous hormone therapy and other risk factors on postoperative nausea and vomiting in transgender patients
Antonio T. Hernandez Conte, MD, MBA, FASA & Cesar Padilla, MD / Lydiesther Martinez, MD
Creation and validation of in-person Spanish language obstetric anesthesiology education classes for non-English speaking Hispanic obstetric patients
Michael P. Hofkamp, MD / Michael Campos
A comparison of postoperative opioid consumption stratified by race before and after implementation of an enhanced recovery after cesarean delivery protocol: a retrospective observational study
Stephanie B. Jones, MD, FASA / Nyla Azam, MD
Building equity through a departmental community outreach program
Vilma A. Joseph, MD, MPH, FASA / Siyun Xie, MD
A National Medical Student Mentoring Program and Microaggression Leadership Program to Nurture and Empower the Next Generation of Underrepresented Anesthesiologists
Elizabeth B. Malinzak, MD, FASA / Reade E. Tillman, MD
Humanism in Anesthesiology: a novel curriculum to address health disparities, implicit bias and social justice education for anesthesiology residents
Jill M. Mhyre, MD / Breyanna Dulaney
Evaluation of an Anesthesia Tech Pipeline Program
Adam J. Milam, MD, PhD / Amelia Clarke
Racial Disparities in Cardiothoracic Surgery Candidacy: Utilization of Society of Thoracic Surgery Risk Score in Pre-Anesthesia Clinical Evaluation
Iyabo O. Muse, MD, FASA / Corrie A. Amos, MD & Karen T. Francois, MD
Improving the Retention and Professional Advancement of Anesthesiology Residents Underrepresented in Medicine Through Faculty and Peer Mentorship
Kristin Ondecko Ligda, MD, FASA & Grace Lim, MD, MSc / Andrea Ibarra, MD, MS
Diversity in the Anesthesia workforce: Where are we now and where are we going?
Leroy C. Phillips, MD, FASA / Jennifer Charles, MD
Anesthesia Based Simulation Center Curriculum for Underrepresented High School and College Students
Robert B. Schonberger, MD, MHS / Monica Arndt, MD
Understanding the effects access to Medicare promotes in care for ethnically diverse patients undergoing cardiac surgery - emergent and semi-deferable – around the age 65 in New Haven – CT
Lisa P. Solomon, DO, FASA / Ho Bin Kim, BA
Mentoring and Inspiring Future URiM Anesthesiologists from Public High Schools in Chicago
Yelena Spitzer, MD / Claudia M. Mort, BA
Building a Pipeline for Mentorship Amongst Female Anesthesiologists: From Medical School and Up
Trevor S. Sutton, MD, MBA / Ervin Ham, BS
Improving Utilization of Cardiovascular Procedures by African American and Hispanic Populations at Hartford Healthcare: A Health Equity Initiative at The Hartford Hospital Community Health Center
Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA, FASA / Kashmira Chawla, MD, MSc
Health Equity and Advocacy in the Perioperative Setting: A Single Institutional Study to Develop a Novel, Evidence-Based Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees
Amr Abouleish, MD / Brandy Watson Wright, MD
Building Equity Through Sponsorship: A pilot program for underrepresented early career anesthesiologists
Adela Aguirre-Alarcon, MD, MS / Felix Dailey Sterling, MD
The association between the patients’ race and ethnicity and the loss of the ability to live independently after surgery - A hospital registry study from a healthcare network in the Bronx
Mary Arthur, MD, FASE, FASA / Jasmeen Kaur, MBBS
Equipping Anesthesia Providers in the Time-limited Preoperative Interview to More Effectively Evaluate Patients Through a Lens of Cultural Competency
Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD / Niti Pawar
Evaluating Loan Burden in Minorities in Anesthesiology and its Impact on Well-Being, Board Scores, and Career Planning
Wanda Chin, MD / Bret Robinson, MD & Jessica Otah, MD
Microaggressions and unconscious bias in perioperative care
Destiny Chau, MD / Caroline Martinello, MD
Developing leadership skills in underrepresented academic junior faculty for anesthesiology department representation in multidisciplinary team initiatives
Arman Dagal, MD, FRCA, MHA / Maeve Muldowney, MB, BCh, BAO, FCAI
Introduction of Virtual Reality Simulation to Anesthesia Resident Education
Elizabeth Drum, MD / Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, MD
Health Literacy and Pediatric Anesthesia: Understanding disparities in health literacy levels by race and ethnicity
Paul S. Garcia, MD, PhD / Morgan C. Graves, MD
Rate of Emergence in anesthetized GABA α4 subunit knockout mice using non-GABA agents
Judith Handley, MD / Caryl Bailey, MD
Building Medical Student Interest in the Anesthesia Specialty Among Women and People of Color Utilizing Early Introduction and Simulation
Michael Hofkamp, MD & Feyce Peralta, MD, MS / Angelica Hatfield, MD
The effect of an educational intervention on labor epidural analgesia utilization stratified by race: an impact study
Vilma Joseph, MD, MPH, FASA / Sherica Thomas, MD
Quality of Patient Care and Workplace Diversity In Anesthesiology
Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP / Varun Yarabarla
Systematic Review: Determining the Impact of Gender and Racial Inequality on Diversity within Academic Anesthesiology and Surgery
Jacqueline M. Leung, MD, MPH / Solmaz Manuel, MD
The Effect of Language Barriers on Recovery Following Gynecologic Surgery
Kimberley R. Nichols, MD, FASA / Tanisha Verneus
Improving Efforts to Recruit Underrepresented Trainees in Anesthesiology Through the American Society of Anesthesiologists Medical Student Component
Jaime Ortiz, MD, MBA, FASA & Quisqueya Palacios, MD / Mgbechi Ugonna Erondu, MD, MFA
One Baylor: A Pilot Intervention to Improve URM Representation in an Anesthesiology Residency Program
Sher-Lu Pai, MD, FASA / Jennifer Lee, DO
Intracardiac Thrombosis During Liver Transplantation: A 22-year Single-institution Study
Jenny Pennycuff, MD, MS / Tiguiran Kane, DO, MS
Understanding Perceived Barriers of Black Women Pursuing a career in Academic Anesthesiology
Sujatha Ramachandran, MD, MACM & David Adams, MD / Camille Fontaine, MD
Enhancing Recruitment Processes To Facilitate The Development of a Diverse Work Force in Anesthesiology
Victor Ramon Davila, MD, FASA / Mohammed Mushtaq Ahmed Hakim, MD
Diversity as an Opportunity for Leadership and Engagement
Shamantha Reddy, MD, FASA / Karen Paltoo, MD
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Healthcare Workers. Does age, gender, level of education, occupation, and racial/ethnic background play a role?
J. Ross Renew, MD, FASA, FASE / Vivian Hernandez-Torres, MD
Improving perioperative neuromuscular function assessment in restricted arm movement surgical setting.
Lisa P. Solomon, DO, FASA / Eseosa Aiwerioghene
Mentoring the Next Generation URiM Anesthesiologists
Luis Tollinche, MD & Cindy Yeoh, MD, FASA / Kevin Yue Zhu, BS
Disparities in pain: association of race, ethnicity, and gender with perioperative and postoperative management of pain in thoracic surgery patients
Richard D. Urman, MD, MBA, FASA / Sindhu Krishnan, MD
Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Radiofrequency Ablation and Epidural Steroid Injection Among the Medicare Population
Mark Zakowski, MD, FASA / Cesar Padilla, MD
Early Career Curriculum in Anesthesiology: A Course for Professional Advancement in Anesthesiology for Underrepresented Undergraduate and Medical Students
