Harborview ETHICS FORUM | ETHICS HEALTHCARE EQUITY & COVID 19
Speakers:
Martine Pierre-Louis, MPH is Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Harborview Medical Center. She holds a master in public health with a focus in international health. A leader in language access for three decades, she was a founding member and past board member for both the Society of Medical Interpreters and the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care. She has collaborated on multiple community-based public health efforts focusing on health care access and quality outcomes for refugee and immigrant families. She has partnered with the Medical Center’s Quality Improvement department to track and measure disparities by race, ethnicity and language and has collaborated with health care teams and community partners to develop innovative programs to decrease disparities in vulnerable communities.
Maralyssa Bann, MD
Dr. Bann works clinically as a Hospital Medicine physician caring for a breadth of inpatient clinical care needs. She has previously served as the Director of Hospital Medicine and is currently the Associate Medical Director for Acute Care at Harborview Medical Center.
Denise Dudzinski, PhD, MTS
Dr. Dudzinski is Professor & Chair of the Department of Bioethics & Humanities, Adjunct Professor in the School of Law and in the Departments of Pediatrics & Family Medicine at the University of Washington. She earned her PhD in Ethics from Vanderbilt University and her Masters of Theological Studies (MTS) from Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is Chief of the UW Medicine Ethics Consultation Service, which is active in three UW Medicine hospitals.