Two-Day Special Event for Researchers and Trainees on Health Equity and Data Science

Both Sessions Free to Attend In-Person or Via Webinar!

Presented by:

Felicity Enders, PhD, MPH
Professor of Biostatistics
Consultant, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science

Speaker Bio

Felicity T. Enders, Ph.D., is a professor of biostatistics at Mayo Clinic. As a highly successful collaborative biostatistician, she has more than 150 publications with an H index of over 40. Dr. Enders has partnered with researchers in clinical areas across the translational science spectrum; most recently this has included women's health and psychology.

Dr. Enders' personal research focuses on educating researchers. For about 15 years, this took the form of statistics education. Leveraging her award-winning expertise, Dr. Enders developed a national statistics education research team within the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design special interest group of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science. Her research interests have evolved to include hidden curriculum for research, a topic that impacts all trainees and junior faculty. Hidden curriculum provides a novel lens through which to understand and overcome barriers for researchers with diverse backgrounds.

Hidden curriculum aligns with Dr. Enders' leadership in the areas of education and diversity. She is the program director for Mayo's TL1 program and for the Minnesota Learning Health System K12. In 2022, she was named Director of the Mayo Clinic Office for Research Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Associate Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science; and Deputy Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Enders has held multiple leadership positions with the American Statistical Association, in which she is an elected fellow, and with the Association for Clinical and Translational Science, for which she is currently a member of the board of directors.

Part One: Hosted at Wake Forest School of Medicine

Rethinking Race-Ethnicity: Introducing Novel Survey-Based Measures of Lifetime Experience of Discrimination and Stress

Thursday, March 16, 2023 | Noon-1:00pm EST
Wake Forest University In-Person Location: 525 Vine Street, Conference Room 4001
WebEx Link: https://wakehealth.webex.com/wakehealth/j.php?MTID=m7590c83c27b56ea651535aa9e4e9a1b4
Meeting number: 2435 666 6040
Password: ysWPtn3ah32

Though race–ethnicity is not a biological variable, Race–ethnicity is included in nearly every medical study and often very statistically & meaningfully significant.
Discover novel measures to capture self-reported experience of discrimination and stress spanning the life course agnostic to source.

Though race-ethnicity is not a biological variable, race-ethnicity is included in nearly every medical study and often very statistically & meaningfully significant. New measures are critically needed that will allow biomedical researchers to disentangle race-ethnicity from the true individual, interpersonal, and structural causes of health disparities. In this talk, we introduce novel measures using simple survey items to capture self-reported experience of discrimination and stress spanning the life course, agnostic to source. Early results from an employee survey will presented.

Questions? Please contact BERDCore@duke.edu

Sponsored by:

North Carolina BERD Consortium (Duke University School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest School of Medicine)
Wake Forest Department of Biostatistics & Data Science

Part Two: Hosted at Duke University

Hidden Curriculum: Expanding Our Toolbox to Help Diverse and Majority Trainees and Junior Faculty

Friday, March 17, 2023 | Noon-1:00pm EST
Duke University In-Person Location: Hock Plaza, Room 10089* (10^th Floor) *Note room change
Zoom Registration: bit.ly/3XFLkYf

Diversity, equity and inclusion drive onboarding, retention and success for students and junior faculty.
Learn the hidden curriculum for research including topics that an institution needs researchers to learn but does not typically teach in formal training.

Hidden curriculum encompasses the norms, values, and behaviors within a learning environment. These are typically not taught yet are critical for success. Navigating the hidden curriculum is crucial for all trainees and junior faculty, and it's especially important for those from underrepresented backgrounds. In this talk, we will explore hidden curriculum topics and their perceived level of importance for majority and diverse trainees and their mentors.