Increasing Diversity in Academic Perioperative Medicine Leadership Positions – Op Ed

Jennifer Lucero preparing an epidural and Catherine Chen in the OR

While academic internal medicine departments have made progress in increasing diversity amongst their faculty leadership, perioperative medicine departments have lagged behind. Addressing this issue in a timely op-ed featured in the June 2020 issue of the World Journal of Surgery, Drs. Catherine Chen and Jennifer Lucero outline a number of concrete steps that academic perioperative departments should take to increase faculty diversity, especially within leadership positions. Read the full article on the World Journal of Surgery website.