The Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) created the Committee to Address Anti-Asian Bias and Racism to code the increasing concerns and fears astir the racism experienced by our Asian and Asian American colleagues astatine the Mount Sinai Health System. The enactment done by this squad includes education, events, and strategies to code and combat anti-Asian bias and racism.
The enactment of this radical is present being formalized into the Center for Asian Equity and Professional Development (CAEPD). The extremity of the caller halfway volition beryllium to recognize implicit bias and racism and code the equity and nonrecreational improvement challenges faced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) assemblage members astatine the Health System successful collaboration with organizations with akin goals.
CAEPD has been established to make affirmative alteration successful the advancement of nonrecreational improvement and equity done promoting education, enabling candid conversations, and taking tangible action.
Who We Are
CAEPD Executive Board
Dennis Charney, MD: Dean of Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai
Amanda Rhee, MD, MS: Inaugural Center Director
James Tsai, MD, MBA: Executive Advisor
Michael DeGuzman, MPH, FACHE: Executive Secretary/Administrative Director
As the Core Leadership Team, the pursuing committee chairs volition pb the arms of CAEPD.
- Professional Advancement—led by Anthoney Lim, MD, and Sabina Lim, MD. This committee is identifying barriers to nonrecreational improvement for Asian Americans and processing solutions to code them.
- Education and Research—led by Cynthia Cleto and Angela Chen, MD. This committee aims to amended the Mount Sinai assemblage connected AAPI past and anti-Asian racism, portion promoting the request for much probe connected AAPI populations.
- Safety—led by Richard Tea, PA-C, MBA. This committee aims to amended the Mount Sinai assemblage connected idiosyncratic information and ways to support oneself from verbal and carnal threats.
Here are our partners and collaborators:
- The Asian Pacific Medical Students Association (APAMSA) is simply a nationalist enactment of aesculapian and pre-medical students committed to addressing the unsocial wellness challenges of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. Please email apamsa.mssm@gmail.com if you would similar much information.
- The Asian Resource Network (ARN) is an worker assets radical that seeks to heighten consciousness of the Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander cultures and traditions done acquisition activities and events during the year. In addition, the radical seeks to found idiosyncratic and nonrecreational improvement and networking forums for MSHS employees to code areas that subordinate to oregon impact Asian Americans wrong the organization. To join, capable retired this form.
- The South Asian Medical Students’ Association (SAMSA) is committed to supporting its students, promoting probe initiatives and advocacy efforts, and addressing the needs of the South Asian American community. We invitation you to articulation SAMSA successful our ngo to amended taste competency successful the adjacent procreation of leaders. Email sinai.samsa@gmail.com for much information.
Our Center focuses connected the Asian and Asian American assemblage and collaborates with the system-wide effort to code bias and racism led by the Office for Diversity and Inclusion. We person a work to code bias, racism, and wide favoritism for each our colleagues and patients.
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