Bending The Arc Toward Justice: Integrating Health Equity Into Practice – 2021 Hospital Medicine

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

PRESENTER(S)

To define terminology related to health equity
To describe methods to discover ‘the issue’ you want to advocate for
To illustrate a framework to approach your advocacy
To write a personal advocacy goal

Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; University of Colorado School of Medicine
Rita Lee is a Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She completed medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, and residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Lee has spent much of her career teaching leadership, advocacy, and health equity. She is the Director of Health Systems Science and Health Equity for the School of Medicine and the Director of Health Equity Education and Training for the Anschutz Medical Campus. Her primary advocacy work has been around LGBT health and she is one of the founding members of the UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program.