Faculty

OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Identity, Privilege & Intersectionality – November 25th

Virtual Event

November 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Bias & Microaggressions – November 20th

Virtual Event

November 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Gender & Sexual Identity – November 10th

Virtual Event

November 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: History of Race and Racism in Science & Medicine – November 3rd

Virtual Event

November 3 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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OHCE Deeper Dive Discussions: Social Determinants of Health – October 30th

Virtual Event

October 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

The Office of Healthcare Equity is pleased to share our newest training and education opportunity. You are invited to sign up for our Deeper Dive Discussions.

We are looking for UW Medicine community members to help us pilot and provide feedback on these discussions, as we prepare to go live with this program early next year.   

Sessions are one hour long, led by a pair of trained facilitators, with a maximum of 20 participants. To prepare for this discussion, all participants are asked to review a 30-minute e-learning didactic presentation of the foundational training topic in focus. The eLearning module link will be included in the registration confirmation.

Register via Zoom

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History of Race and Racism in Science & Medicine (2) December 19th

Virtual Event

December 19 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Course Objectives

  • Understand the way medicine/science has been used to create and further racism
  • Understand the history of the creation of racial categories and hierarchy, particularly by physicians, and how that framework is still used in modern medicine
  • Recognize race as a social and political construct
  • Explain how and why race is not biological or genetic
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Pronoun Competency Training – December 17th

Virtual Event

December 17 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Objective
Building Inclusive and Affirming Interactions at UW Medicine

Using individuals’ pronouns is fundamental to respectful, inclusive, and affirming interactions across UW Medicine, with our colleagues, students, and patients.  Many of our community members make mistakes at times, are corrected, and genuinely apologize.  However, to truly improve, we need structured and supportive opportunities to practice. These opportunities are not typically available in our day-to-day interactions.

This monthly training series provides ongoing opportunities to practice and receive feedback from experts and supportive colleagues to improve pronoun competency. Remember, practice makes perfect and you may attend these sessions as often as you would like. Registration for each group is capped at 20 to allow for individualized practice and feedback. The goal is to foster inclusion and belonging for every member of our UW Medicine community, with emphasis on supporting those who do not use he/his or she/her pronouns.

Register via Zoom

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Pronoun Competency Training – November 4th

Virtual Event

November 4 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Objective
Building Inclusive and Affirming Interactions at UW Medicine

Using individuals’ pronouns is fundamental to respectful, inclusive, and affirming interactions across UW Medicine, with our colleagues, students, and patients.  Many of our community members make mistakes at times, are corrected, and genuinely apologize.  However, to truly improve, we need structured and supportive opportunities to practice. These opportunities are not typically available in our day-to-day interactions.

This monthly training series provides ongoing opportunities to practice and receive feedback from experts and supportive colleagues to improve pronoun competency. Remember, practice makes perfect and you may attend these sessions as often as you would like. Registration for each group is capped at 20 to allow for individualized practice and feedback. The goal is to foster inclusion and belonging for every member of our UW Medicine community, with emphasis on supporting those who do not use he/his or she/her pronouns.

Register via Zoom

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Dr. Reya Mokiao Named Patricia L. Dawson Endowed Faculty Fellow

Left to right: Dr. Bessie Young, Dr. Reya Mokiao, & Dr. Paula Houston  

Left to right: Dr. Bessie Young, Dr. Reya Mokiao, & Dr. Paula Houston  

Dr. Mokiao receives a traditional Indigenous blanket in honor of her award from the Center of Indigenous Health 

Dr. Mokiao receives a traditional Indigenous blanket in honor of her award from the Center of Indigenous Health 

Dr. Reya Mokiao delivers remarks after accepting the Pat Dawson Endowed Fellowship

Dr. Reya Mokiao delivers remarks after accepting the Pat Dawson Endowed Fellowship  

OHCE was grateful to honor and recognize the accomplishments of Dr. Reya Mokiao as the 2025-2028 Dr. Patricia L. Dawson Endowed Faculty awardee for her remarkable contributions to the community through her commitment to her research and advancing health equity. Dr. Mokiao is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, in the Division of Nephrology and the first Native Hawaiian pediatric nephrologist trained at Children’s. She is also a KL2 scholar through the Institute of Translational Health Sciences. She has made a tangible impact both within the University of Washington Medicine community along with the broader Seattle area by partnering with Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. Her work has received grant support from the Center of Indigenous Health to conduct a community needs assessment. She is currently working on understanding and developing kidney and cardiometabolic health programs for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youth. 

This fund supports the work of a faculty leader at UW Medicine to operationalize the goals of the UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Blueprint, an innovative roadmap for improving equity outcomes written by UW Medicine leaders and initiated by Drs. Houston and Dawson. You can learn more about the fund and support its lasting impact here. 

Bystander Intervention (6) September 17th

Virtual Event

September 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Course Objectives

  1. Describe why it is important to intervene when you observe an incident of identity-based harm.
  2. Identify the obstacles that may get in the way of intervening effectively.
  3. Learn and practice the five D’s of bystander intervention.
    *This course is available to community members who have completed our Foundational Training sequence.
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