How are you promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the workplace and/or in urology?
Attendees describe their efforts to better the specialty of urology.
Eisuke Tomiyama, MD, PhDIn Japan, we are trying to increase the ratio of female professors and female urologists by creating a structure that encourages their involvement. Urology is one of the most male-dominated specialties, and we want to change that situation.
Eisuke Tomiyama, MD, PhD Vancouver, BC, Canada
John McGill, MDI am the chair of the Community Prostate Health Fair, which started last year as an annual event with R. Frank Jones (Urological Society) and some other partners, including the American Medical Association. Essentially, we go to conferences and into communities to do free PSA screenings and we connect people with resources outside of their community, whether that is with the American Cancer Society or health equity funds like Zero Prostate. We believe education is important, and we also think that longitudinal relationships are important. By linking those communities not only with those resources outside, but with research institutions or hospitals within their community and striking those relationships, we think we can make a difference in health disparities.
John McGill, MD Leesburg, Georgia
Agustin Perez, MDI am a researcher, so I am keeping in mind every day that with research I can promote inclusion and I can promote diversity to help improve outcomes for all kinds of patients and for everyone around the world.
Agustin Perez, MD Boston, Massachusetts
Eugene Rhee, MD, MBAUrology, as a community, is seeing such a huge demand for the limited supply of urologists, and there absolutely is an active approach that starts even with the medical student and even college student to try to influence those young people toward a path in urology. There are only 12,000-13,000 practicing urologists in the United States, and we want to create as much diversity for our patients as possible, whether it’s in clinical research trials or in clinical practice. We have to engage in technology, support staff and get more residents with GMA funding, which are some of the strategies we are using. I am a Korean-American, and I am very proud of the pathway the AUA as an organization has provided me.
Eisuke Tomiyama, MD, PhD
John McGill, MD
Agustin Perez, MD
Eugene Rhee, MD, MBA
