Reducing Bias and Inequity in Health Care:
The Art and Science of Relationship-Centered Medical Care

It’s 2016, and much work is still needed to improve health and health care for minorities. This medical Shabbat workshop highlights how race, ethnicity, language preference, sexual orientation, mental health and social class affect medical outcomes, with a focus on race and ethnicity.

Speakers, family physician and UCSF professor emeritus Bill Shore, MD, and Denise Davis, MD, FAACH, a clinical professor at UCSF, will discuss the new national movement aimed at reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care. They will demonstrate the value of high-quality, culturally humble communication in medicine and invite participants to practice communication skills that have been shown to promote healing. The result of this new approach is improved outcomes for patients, families and health-care professionals.

Shabbat Metzora is presented in memory of Bernie Silverman.

Speakers include:
Bill Shore, MD, a family physician and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Medicine
Denise L. Davis, MD, FAACH, clinical professor at the UCSF School of Medicine

In addition to our speakers, the program was organized by Helen Luey, vice president of CSI and chair of the synagogue’s inclusion task force, Valerie Jahan, MD, a pediatrician and immediate past president of the congregation, and Phaedra Bell, PhD, executive director of the Admissions and Student Experience Team (AsSET) at the UCSF School of Medicine.

Shabbat Metzora lunch is complimentary.
Please RSVP below or contact Nia Taylor, 415.346.1720, x 17, or ntaylor@sherithisrael.org.