The mission of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine is to foster a collaborative and diverse environment that promotes professional growth and provides compassionate and equitable patient care.
Our Goals:
- Build a collaborative team that reflects the diversity of the community and the patient populations that we serve.
- Promote diversity of thought and process in all areas of education, research and patient care.
- Provide educational content and resources to promote recognition and minimization of health care disparities.
- Recognize and award individuals and teams that promote changes that focus on equity and diversity within our division.
Diversity Events:
Cardiology Grand Rounds: Available through the VUMC Learning Exchange, Cardiology Grand Rounds
- Feb. 27, 2024: Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, Indiana University: Reducing racial and gender disparities in cardiovascular disease
- Jan. 12, 2024: Faculty-Fellow Book/Podcast Club: The Promise: History of public education and desegregation in Nashville
- Nov. 8, 2023: Celestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, VUMC: HIV-specific immune responses and cardiovascular disease
Previous Diversity Events:
Nov. 2, 2022: Dr. Rebecca Hahn: Women and Valve Disease
Sept. 28, 2022: Dr. Modele Oguinniyi: Health Care Disparities in Heart Failure
Spring 2022: Del Ray Zimmerman: LBGTQ Care in the Vanderbilt Community
Jan. 14, 2022: Emmanuel Acho: Difficult Conversations with a Black Man
Oct. 1, 2021: Francesca Duncan, MD: Responding to Racism, Discrimination and Microaggressions in Academic Medicine
Vanderbilt DEI Resources
- Department of Medicine Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- VUMC/VUSM Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence
- VUMC Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Disability
- VUMC House Staff Diversity & Inclusion Alliance
- VUMC Minority House Staff for Academic and Medical Achievement
- VUMC Program for LGBTQ Health
- Vanderbilt University Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Vanderbilt University Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Life
Internal resources for VUMC employees (Requires login)
- VUMC Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- VUMC/VUSM Office for Diversity Affairs
- VUMC Office of Health Equity Antiracism Hub
- VUMC Employee Resource Groups
- Diversity literature and articles (SharePoint access required)
Other Resources
Diversity Liaisons
Lisa Mendes, MD
Professor of Medicine
Henry Okafor, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine