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Confronting Flexner Speaker Series - The Flexner Report and Black Neurosurgeons: Challenges and Opportunities

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Bioethics & Medical Humanities Thread, Admissions
Location
Zoom
Date
Feb 15, 2023   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Dr. Ernest J. Barthélemy
Registration
Register Here
Contact
Dr. Imanni Sheppard or Jessica Williams
E-Mail
iks@illinois.edu or jwillms3@illinois.edu
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Join us for the February installment of the Confronting Flexner Speaker Series! This month, we will hear from Dr. Ernest Barthélemy, MD, MPH, MA: "The Flexner Report and Black Neurosurgeons: Challenges and Opportunities." This presentation will explore the impact of the Flexner Report as a historical determinant of black minoritization in American neurosurgery. Contemporary barriers stemming from the Flexner Report legacy will be discussed, as well as opportunities for advancing racial equity and social justice in neurosurgery, medicine, and public health.

Dr. Ernest J. Barthélemy is a neurosurgeon, global health scientist, and Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery at the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York. A Haitian-American native of New York City, Dr. Barthélemy completed his medical education and neurosurgery residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and subsequently completed post-residency fellowships in both clinical neurotrauma and in health equity at the University of California, San Francisco. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow at Harvard University, where he also obtained a Master of Public Health degree with concentrations in Global Health and Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Barthélemy is the founding president of the Society of Haitian Neuroscientists, a growing Haitian Diaspora organization with over 100 members in six countries that aims to advance neurological care and mental health in all Haitian communities. He also sits on the Global Health Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy, and is 2021-2023 Co-Chair of the Young Neurosurgeons Forum of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. 

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