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.