Voices of DEI: Jaimie Meyer, MD, MS - Yale School of Medicine

Introducing Jaimie Meyer, MD, MS, of the Section of Infectious Diseases.

What does diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you personally? 

DEI means taking long-overdue steps to code racism, bigotry, bias, and exclusivity successful our community, our institution, and successful medicine. It means knowing however long-standing principles, practices, and civilization person marginalized immoderate portion elevating the voices of others—not based connected their ideas oregon intellect, but based connected different factors, similar age, race, ethnicity, language, sex identity, intersexual orientation, societal status. DEI acknowledges the request to change.

Why bash you worth diversity?

Because our assemblage is much vibrant, interesting, and engaged erstwhile determination are radical with antithetic experiences and ideas contributing to it.

Why should an world mounting beryllium adjacent and inclusive?

So that the adjacent procreation of physicians and scientists consciousness invited and acceptable to lend superb ideas. And truthful that our patients consciousness heard and privation to engage.

Why are you connected the diverseness committee?

If not me, who? I americium passionate astir these issues and privation to spot our civilization change.

What bash you look guardant to most?

Watching our instauration change.

What person you noticed successful the department?

More predominant treatment of societal and structural factors influencing health. More intentional efforts to enlistee divers residents, fellows, and faculty. 

The Department of Internal Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion successful Internal Medicine knows that diversity, equity, and inclusion is captious to our mission; aims to supply a safe, welcoming situation for radical of each backgrounds results successful beneficial diverseness of thought; and believes that having a divers squad enhances our quality to supply fantabulous objective care, research, and aesculapian education.