Implicit Bias & Healthcare Disparities

Speaker: Debalina Bandyopadhyay, PHD

Health Care disparities often occur due to lack of knowledge and/or unconscious bias presented by the health care providers

Training on unconscious bias and its effects on health care practice

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the impact of implicit bias in health care and its relation to health disparities

• Discuss strategies to manage one’s own implicit bias

• Discuss strategies to manage implicit bias in health care settings

• Identify ethical values in relation to implicit bias

  
  

  Speaker Bio

  Dr. Debalina Bandyopadhyay is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of Operations at MSUCOM’s Detroit Medical Center (DMC) site since 2015. Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s primary responsibilities at MSUCOM include providing strategic, financial and functional administrative leadership of faculty and staff at the DMC site, providing organizational development and planning for the DMC site, and contributing towards development of the MSUCOM pre-clerkship curriculum. Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s passion is in undergraduate medical education and student success. Dr. Bandyopadhyay is also a relentless advocate for diversity and inclusivity.

  Prior to MSUCOM, Dr. Bandyopadhyay was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Michigan’s Dearborn Campus for ten years. Dr. Bandyopadhyay received her PhD degree in Bio-Inorganic Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. She has done her post-doctoral work at the Department of Pharmacology of University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, Florida, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences in Claremont, California and in the Institute of Curie in Paris, France.