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So, the Martin Luther
King Award is really about
someone who goes above and
beyond their responsibilities,
their normal responsibilities
here at UCSF,
to really contribute to increasing
the diversity and
inclusion here on campus.
- It's incredibly
important that the staff,
faculty, residents, all
those who provide care
in our institutions
represent the community,
and the more we can do to
address the disparities
within our own employment base,
but also, recognizing individuals who
really champion this effort
is critically important
to push that agenda forward.
I nominated Dr. Rosny Daniel,
who is a current fourth year resident
in our emergency medicine
residency program.
He's been a tremendous ambassador for
diversity equity inclusion at UCSF.
- Since his joining of our residency,
Rosny has helped to recruit
medical students and
helped our program develop
a pipeline in terms of
improving diversity within the residency.
- The diversity within our program has
gone from somewhere in the order of
10 to 15% of our
residents, up to 40 to 45,
and in some classes, above 50%.
And I do think that that
is a direct correlation to
the impact that he has
had within our program.
- Put simply, Rosny's
the only resident that
we have ever nominated for this award.
- He's a tremendous and tireless
mentor and advocate on behalf of
those who are following in his footsteps,
and I'm proud to be a colleague of his.
But more importantly, I'm incredibly happy
to be a lifelong friend of his.
- The person I nominated
for the award is Judy Young.
Judy is the associate director of the
National Center of Excellence
in Women's Health here at UCSF.
- She has changed the
culture in our department.
We've now held three all
department-wide meetings.
At each one of those
three annual meetings,
we have had topics that
are related to diversity,
'cause we realize that
conversation is often the way
that you get people's
hearts and minds to change.
So, her impact is really
across the entire department.
- She is supportive and very positive,
despite the many challenges that she sees
within the purview of
diversity equity inclusion.
She is strategic, and she
always makes time for it,
because she feels this is
a deeply important issue
for her and for the institution.
- I'm happy to say that the recipient of
the Chancellor's Award for
Diversity is Dr. Holly Ingraham.
Holly has taken on a very
critical issue with UCSF,
which is the lack of diversity
of the post-doctoral scholars.
- There isn't a support system
for many of those people,
and so that's really a lot of what
Holly has been working on,
particularly through
running this IRACDA Program,
which is for training
post-doctoral fellows
who are underrepresented minorities.
- That's really important, because
if there's a lack of a
pipeline of diverse applicants,
it's hard to increase the
diversity in the faculty.
- And our program was unstable,
and so she took it over,
and really expanded and made
it a much richer program.
- Her program alone is something like
30 or 40 percent of the total
diverse post-docs at UCSF.
- So, Holly's work with the IRACDA Program
has really had a big impact here at UCSF.
- I think the important
thing to realize is
that anyone can step up to the plate.
They just have to make it a priority.
And there's a lot of work to
be done at UCSF right now,
so let's become part of the movement
to make UCSF a great climate for everyone.
