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Diversity cannot be reduced to a simple metric…
AABPS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was created in part due to a need for a professional society for the growing number of Black and African-American physician scientist trainees and faculty. Black representation among physician scientists continues to be underrepresented when compared to those of White and Asian descent. Diversity cannot be reduced to a simple metric, however. The National Institutes of Health have long promoted an increase in Black MD/PhD students because of improved patient outcomes and satisfaction.1,2 Likewise, increasing Black representation in the biomedical sciences allows for a wider array of great minds with unique viewpoints to all then be focused on improving human health.3
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“I have tried to live in a world that does not see color but have only succeeded in living in a world that does not see me. “
— Kafui Dzirasa, MD,PhD
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
— Booker T. Washington
“What the Negro physician needs is equal opportunity for training and practice—no more, nor less.”
— Louis Tompkins Wright, M.D.
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