Dec 13
2021
Tag: Diversity Equity & Inclusion
Dec 1
2021
Speaking of Sex, in the Fall 2021 Issue of Ignite
How is it that the holiday visits we long for so often lead to awkward, even painful, conversations? Being with family can be fraught, especially when people are going through [...]Nov 29
2021
Read the Fall 2021 Issue of ‘Ignite’ Online Now!
Have you, like 42 percent of Americans surveyed, gained weight during the pandemic? Is the concept of a gender-affirming clinic new to you? Did you know that the percentage of [...]Sep 24
2021
“100+Latinos Cleveland Must Know” List Names NEOMED’s Torres and Mirelez
Who are top Latino professionals in Greater Cleveland? You can count Northeast Ohio Medical University’s Iris Mirelez, M.Ed., assistant director of Student Diversity, College of Medicine, and Victor Torres, M.A., […]
Aug 23
2021
Discussing Equity and Social Justice with Brant Lee: Race and the Law
When a free, online, 12-week course introducing the impact of the law on equality in America was offered by the University of Akron a year ago, Yoleetah Ilodi, M.D., assistant […]
Aug 20
2021
Medicine Student Takes Global Challenge
Competing with 7,500 medicine students from more than 100 countries, second-year College of Medicine student Oroshay Kaiwan recently reached the semi-finals of the ClinicalKey Student Global Challenge held by Elsevier.com, […]
Aug 17
2021
Roy James II: Setting the Stage for Compassionate Care
There’s one patient skill that will never show up on a written test — one that Roy James II started learning when he was a theater student at the Cleveland […]
Jul 1
2021
Singing the Chicken Wing Song to Fight Childhood Obesity
Connecting. That was the biggest reward for Aviva Aguilar, a rising third-year student in the College of Medicine, from participating in a national program designed to give medicine students from […]
Jun 18
2021
NEOMED Recognizes Juneteenth
Juneteenth (short for June 19th) marks the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans throughout Texas learned that they were free. The news arrived approximately two months after the Confederate […]
Jun 9
2021
What’s a Microaggression? Equity and Inclusion in Student Mental Health
The human toll taken by the “double pandemic” of COVID-19 and racism experienced in daily life has increasingly been acknowledged as an issue that need to be addressed on university […]
