BME Organizations Leading Diversity (BOLD)

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Mission:

To coordinate a national, BME community response to the longstanding racism in our nation and its impact on 1) the composition and culture of our field and 2) healthcare inequality.

Steering Committee:


Norma Alcantar AIMBE, Committee for Underrepresented Minorities Chair	Treena Arinzeh BMES, Annual Meeting Chair	Evangelia Bellas BMES, DEI Committee Chair	Kris Billiar BMES, Annual Meeting Chair

Naomi Chesler AIMBE, Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair	Vicki Colvin CoC, Current President	Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez SFB, Diversity Committee Chair	Arthur Edge NSBE, Healthcare Innovation Special Interest Group Director

Teresa Murry CoD, Steering Committee Chair	Brenda Ogle BOLD Chairperson	Cynthia Reinhart-King BMES, President Elect	Evan Scott CoD, Past Steering Committee Chair

Anita Singh BMES, Annual Meeting Chair	John White BMES, Current President	Joyce Wong AIMBE, Current President	Kaiming Ye CoC, Past President

News and Current Events:

Rising BME Regional Conference

June 22-24, 2022 • Washington University in St. Louis

The 2022 Rising BME Scholars Regional Career Conference is part of a collaborative effort to recruit, strengthen and diversify the next generation of academic researchers in BME. This event will give participants the opportunity to learn from faculty and from each other about pathways to professional success and reward in academic careers.

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Accessibility at BMES 2022 Annual Meeting

BMES is working to make the Annual Meeting even more accessible for attendees! We are working to contract with a sign language interpreter as well as provide closed captioning during the event.

Mentorship Program Opportunity

Create a DEI mentorship program for department chairs and faculty via a collaboration between the BMES Diversity Committee, the AIMBE Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and the AIMBE Committee for Underrepresented Minorities.

Anti-racism: A roadmap to policy transformation in BME 2021 Summit on Anti-Racism in BME

BMES Responds to Racism and Equal Justice

Council of BME Diversity

Collaborate with the Council of BME Chairs to regularly convene leaders of departmental diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) groups (i.e., the Council of BME Diversity) in an effort to effectively spread and thereby amplify successful activities.

Virtual Seminars and Conference Session

Convene dedicated conference sessions and virtual seminars led by renowned subject matter experts to promote and foster discussions focused on bringing to light the conscious and subconscious biases, which disproportionately affect the Black community with a long-term effort to build findings into policy-driven action

Bylaws:

BOLD Bylaws 2021

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