Inventions
Dr. Charles Drew, an African American researcher, revolutionized the method of blood storage by separating this liquid portion of blood.
What is plasma?
In 1975, New York became the first state to screen infants for this disease affecting red blood cells that is mainly present in black individuals.
What is sickle cell anemia?
The current AED DEI chair.
Who is Ellie Graham?
Often shortened to DEI, it is an organizational framework that promotes fair treatment and full participation of all people.
What is Diversity, Equity and, Inclusion?
The Lyon hypothesis, named for Dr. Mary Lyon, a 20th century geneticist, hypothesizes that one of these is deactivated randomly early in embryological development.
What is an X Chromosome?
A condition affecting blood clotting, Judith Pool discovered Factor VIII in human plasma and synthesized it artificially, allowing people suffering from this condition to live more complete lives.
What is hemophilia?
The first two women, Dr. Love Gantt and Dr. Emilie Rundlett, graduated from MUSC in this year.
When is 1901?
Paul Kalanithi's specialty in the most recent DEI book club book, When Breath Becomes Air.
What is neurosurgery?
Equality refers to treating everyone the same while this term refers to providing necessary access for individuals to thrive.
What is equity?
Ibn al-Nafis, an Arab poly math who did large amounts of research on the Human body, discovered that blood was moved from the right ventricle to the left ventricle of the heart through this organ.
What are the lungs?
The most utilized animal in research, pathologist Maud Slye developed one of the first genetically uniform strains to study cancer.
What are mice?
The first African American graduate from MUSC, Bernard Deas Jr. graduated in this year.
When is 1971?
The alma mater of Uché, Oni, and Dale Blackstock, the subjects of the first DEI book club book, Legacy.
What is Harvard Medical School?
This person is required to get medical consent from non-English speakers and helps to facilitate communication between doctors and patients.
What is a translator?
The APGAR score, named for Dr. Virginia Apgar, is used to evaluate this kind of patient.
Who are newborn babies?
A process of fertilisation in which an egg is combined with sperm "in glass". It was developed by the Chinese American Biologist Min Chang.
What is in vitro fertilization?
In 1993, Dr. Joycelyn Elders became the first African American and only the second woman to ascend to the this office, and thus became the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States.
What is the Surgeon General of the United States?
The organization that was recently an AED mini speaker who organizes and promotes athletics for its athletes with mental disabilities.
What is the Special Olympics?
Economic stability, education level, and neighborhoods in which one lives are all examples of this term.
What are Social Determinates of health?
The Sister Joseph Nodule, named for American nun and hospital administrator Sister Mary Joseph, refers to a palpable nodule bulging into this, also known as the belly button, which is a result of metastasis of a malignant cancer in the pelvis or abdomen.
What is the umbilicus?
Used widely by doctors every day and especially key during the Covid-19 pandemic, the respirator fabrication technology to allow these to exist was invented by Peter Tsai, a Taiwanese American material scientist.
What is an N-95 mask?
The first black American to receive a medical license had to travel to this country to receive it due to racist admission practices in US schools.
What is Scotland?
The group that recent AED speaker Dr. Sana Khan focuses on serving through the specific hospital he works at.
Who are veterans?
A type of language that aims to describe patients as "having" the conditions rather than "being" the condition.
What is people-first language?
An African American woman who had cells taken from her in Baltimore shortly before her death from cervical cancer. HeLa cells, named after her, went on to become fundamental to a large amount of modern medical research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?