The Collective AIM (Antiracism In Medicine) was formed in 2020 at the intersection of two pandemics – COVID-19 and structural racism. Communities of color, and in particular Black and Brown communities, have been deeply impacted by both pandemics.

Multiple arenas, including health care and education, are experiencing a significant reckoning with how structural racism is deeply embedded within their policies, practices, and overall institutions. Committing to and investing in antiracism is critical. It requires us to engage in the important learning and unlearning needed to amplify diversity and inclusion, and manifest equity and justice.

Through our longitudinal partnership, our clients learn to:

 – Advance health equity and racial justice

– Integrate critical frameworks to dismantle racism

      – Manifest growth and healing opportunities

Services

Facilitator Training

Empowerment of local DEIA champions to lead and facilitate discussions on race and racism

Climate Assessment

Exploration of experiences, knowledge, and attitudes related to racism and antiracism education

Educational Workshops

One antiracism in medicine workshop or longitudinal educational series

Race Caucusing

Introduction to caucusing and development of skills to facilitate racial affinity caucuses

Recruitment Strategies

Workshop on frameworks for successful recruitment strategies to enhance diversity of residents and faculty, individualized assessment and recommendations

Comprehensive Assessment

Assessment of current DEIA work and facilitation of development of DEIA strategic plan

Meet the Collective

Clinician-educators and leaders from across the country who are passionate about sharing expertise in antiracist practices with the medical community

Maisha Davis, MD, MPH

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Dr. Maisha Davis is a Family Medicine physician living in Oakland, working in San Francisco, and striving every day to foster alignment between their passion for healing and the profession of medicine. They completed their medical training in Seattle, WA at Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency. Much of their professional work revolves around navigating medicine as a Black, queer, non-binary health professional and helping these traditional spaces adjust in order to support and affirm others --patients and peers--who may lie at any combination of these intersections.

Angela Tambunting Echiverri, MD, MPH

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Dr. Angela T. Echiverri is a first generation, queer woman of color raised in Inglewood, CA. She completed her residency training in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF / San Francisco General Hospital, and practices in a federally qualified health center in Richmond, CA. She is a core faculty member of the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program, an affiliate program of UCSF. Dr. Echiverri serves as their inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Antiracism (DEIA), and has made significant contributions to the recruitment and retention of residents under-represented in medicine (URM), cultivating a safe and inclusive learning climate, and growing the next generation of community health agents through health career pathway programming.

Jessica Guh, MD

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Dr. Jessica Guh is a Family Medicine physician based in Seattle, WA. She completed her residency at Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency. After graduation, she started working at International Community Health Services (ICHS), a federally qualified health center focused on the care of the underserved AAPI community. Dr. Guh currently serves as the Residency Site Director at ICHS for Swedish Cherry Hill. She has been instrumental in not only increasing recruitment and retention of BIPOC residents and faculty at Swedish Cherry Hill, but also redefining what it means to be an antiracist physician and medical community.

Laura Krinsky, MD

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Dr. Laura Krinsky is a Family Medicine physician who has focused on antiracism work as central to her role as a clinician, educator, and organizer. She completed residency and served as a Chief Resident at the Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency, where she co-founded a youth mentorship program and gained experience designing antiracism curricula for the white caucus. Dr. Krinsky looks forward to bringing her experience facilitating antiracism trainings in the white community to other institutions. She currently serves as the Director of Maternity Education at the Tufts Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance.

Maria Harsha Wusu, MD, MSEd

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Dr. Maria Harsha Wusu is a Family Medicine physician whose work is fueled by her commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and antiracism. After completing her residency at Boston Medical Center, Dr. Wusu joined the faculty and served as the inaugural Director of Diversity Programs in the Department of Family Medicine. While at BMC, she created a strategic plan for diversity recruitment that resulted in an increase in the percentage of URM residents from 10% to over 30% in three years. Currently, Dr. Wusu is the Director of Health Equity in the Department of Family Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine where she leads the development of curriculum focused on racial justice, antiracism and health equity.

What Clients and Attendees Say

Antiracism Caucusing Workshop

pediatric emergency medicine fellow

"All parts of the workshop contributed to my learning – both didactic and interactive portions were very engaging [and had] clear learning points. Overall, VERY well done.”

Becoming an Antiracist Physician Workshop

Internal Medicine Residency Faculty Member

“This was valuable to everyone including those new to this conversation and those advanced. It helped our program get on the same page going forward."

Structural Racism and Academic Medicine Presentation

Family Medicine Conference Attendee

“Provided a thoughtful approach for looking at structural change toward diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism (DEIA) in institutions. Stimulated thinking about actions moving forward in our educational systems, medical schools, residency training, departments, institutions and communities.”

Addressing Racism Workshop

“I plan to be more introspective and retrospective as it pertains to my biases and racist thoughts. I will also consider those inequities that plague my patients more than ever before. I plan to combat my defense mechanism of making myself numb to racism and the issues that we are faced with daily; which will help me to strive towards being an antiracist physician.”

Examining Racism Workshop

“I will be more deliberate about noticing disadvantage and privilege simultaneously... Be more aware of patients’ life events leading to the point in time in which they come in contact with me during an office visit.”

The Collective AIM is

Teaching 

Learning

Unlearning

Support

Challenge

Leadership

Diversity

Equity

Inclusion

Antiracism

Justice