Find your niche.
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.
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.
Diversity Mentoring Cascade
A Mentoring Cascade is a form of inter-generational learning in which knowledge, values, and practice cascade from one generation of health professionals to another. Mentoring Cascade teams are comprised of underrepresented minority faculty, medical school and residency alumni, fellows, residents and medical students, allowing for mentoring up and down the training “cascade.” LEARN MORE
Research
Below are some of the research studies being done by members of the Department of Anesthesiology to investigate causes and methods for addressing healthcare disparities in surgical and anesthesia patients.
The future of disparities research in obstetric anesthesia
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Regional Anesthesia: A Brief Review
Resources
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.
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"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 Committee
Danielle McCullough, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Chair of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion
Department of Anesthesiology
Email: dam2034@med.cornell.edu
Joe Bryant-Huppert, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Taylor Fortson, MD
Resident - Class of 2027
Julian Rowe, MD
Resident - Class of 2027
Seyed Safavynia, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Nicole Thomasian, MD, MPP
Resident - Class of 2026