"As a department, diversity is one of our greatest strengths and a pillar of our mission."
Different perspectives and ideas keep a community productive, innovative and healthy. As a department, diversity is one of our greatest strengths and a pillar of our mission.
Initiatives and Programs
Education
Make Your Match
The Make Your Match event provides medical students of underrepresented in medicine (URM) backgrounds with important information about the residency match process. Organized by the NYP/Weill Cornell residency programs, Weill Department of Medicine Office of Diversity, Cornell Center for Health Equity, and the Weill Cornell Diversity Center for Excellence, it offers a unique experience in which medical students interact with top experts from Weill Cornell Medicine.
Anesthesiology Diversity Visiting Student Sub-Internship Program
The Department of Anesthesiology's Diversity Visiting Student Sub-Internship Program is a funded program for fourth year medical students interested in anesthesiology. The program gives students who are traditionally underrepresented in anesthesiology the opportunity to rotate at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. LEARN MORE
Resources
Learn more about programs that support diverse and underrepresented communities.
Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Weill Cornell Medicine
The mission of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Weill Cornell Medical College is to foster an atmosphere in which individual characteristics are respected and where both differences and similarities are valued. Our goal is to create a collaborative working and learning environment. LEARN MORE
Learn More
"The Danger of a Single Story", a TED talk by author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
"The Pygmalion Effect", a short video on how expectations can become self-fulfilling prophecies.
"How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them", a TED talk by Verna Myers.
Diversity and Inclusion Faculty
Danielle McCullough, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Chair of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion
Department of Anesthesiology
Email: dam2034@med.cornell.edu
Seyed Safavynia, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Joe Bryant-Huppert, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology