Achieving Antiracism in Medical Education

Dr. Hess is Founder and Co-Director of the The Center for Antiracism in Practice. She has over eight years of experience teaching masters level courses on contemporary social issues, focusing on racism, sexism, ableism, and heterocentrism. Dr. Hess facilitates opportunities to engage in deeper dialogue, challenge the status quo, promote critical thinking and systems thinking, and identify sound actions and a strategy toward systemic change. Hess holds a PhD from Columbia University and an MSW from New York University. Ann-Gel S. Palermo is the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer in Education and Research of the Mount Sinai Health System's Office for Diversity and Inclusion. Dr. Palermo is also the co-director of the newly established ISMMS Center for Antiracism in Practice. Dr. Palermo provides leadership, strategic vision, and guidance in the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into the structures, policies, and practices of the education and research environments. Dr. Palermo spearheads and works in partnership with senior leaders to develop and implement initiatives with effective accountability and assessment mechanisms to foster a holistic, equitable, and thriving environment for Mount Sinai faculty, staff, students, and trainees. Dr. Palermo is the national chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Student Affairs (GSA) Committee on Student Diversity Affairs (COSDA). David Muller's work focuses on the impact of racism and bias on medical education and creating alternative pathways to medical school in an effort to redefine national standards for undergraduate and post-bac pre-med preparation. His honors include the 2015 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award and the 2009 American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Pride in the Profession Award. Under his leadership, ISMMS was recognized with the AAMC Spencer Foreman Community Service Award in 2009. In 2004 he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society.Dr. Muller co-founded and directed the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program. Founded in 1995, Visiting Doctors is now the largest academic physician home visiting program in the country.

"...focuses on transforming medical education within academic centers, [providing] detailed instructions on the steps necessary to achieve these changes, using the author's experience as an example.... The book does an impressive job of making complex steps appear achievable and implementable for anyone committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. [Its] purpose is to encourage clinical educators and leaders within medical education to take critical, sustainable steps towards making their institutions antiracism spaces. It provides explicit instructions, graphs, charts, and activities to accomplish these goals.... specifically written for clinical educators and leadership within academic medical centers.... One of the book's best parts is its innovative approach to making an academic medical center and medical school anti-racist.... an effective tool for educators who want to make change, build community, and sustain change,... [and] could be a real asset for an institution working to create inclusive change." ©Doody's Book Review Service, 2025, Kara Alcegueire, MD (Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center) Doody's Score: 95, 4 stars!

• 1. The Water We Swim In2. Changing the Water3. Phase 1: Assessing Readiness for Change4. Phase 2: Preparing for Change5. Phase 3: Creating a Climate for Change6. Phase 4: Engaging and Enabling Your Institution for Change7. Phase 5: Implementing and Sustaining Change8. Student Engagement at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai9. Antiracism in Practice: Learning and Development10. Antiracist Community of Practice