CIPHERS Grand Round: Recognizing and removing bias in medical education and practice presented by Dr. Luis Manriquez

About the event

This talk will focus on evaluation, measurement and remediation of institutional bias using examples from medical education and clinical practice.  The educational example will focus on skin tone in medical curriculum.  The clinical example will focus on street medicine and medication delivery.  Lastly, the model of targeted universalism will be introduced as a framework for addressing systemic bias and institutionalized inequities.

Luis Manriquez, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane, WA where he leads Health Equity development efforts in the office of Community Engagement and Health Equity. As a medical student, he founded the Health Equity Circle, an inter-professional student group that equips students to take action on health equity with community partners using the tools of community organizing. Health Equity Circle students have worked with community partners to increase funding for affordable housing by $67 million dollars, support a $327 million dollar bond for early childhood education programs, protect medical interpretive services from budget cuts, and legislation requiring workers to have access to sick and safe leave at their jobs. Luis is a family physician and the lead provider of the CHAS Health Street Medicine team in Spokane. He is also working on developing clinical programs to bring patients and clinic staff together to address social determinants of health in collaboration with community partners. He is passionate about eliminating health inequities and making Washington the healthiest and most equitable state in the nation.