Health Equity Speaker Series - Pursuing Exceptional Quality for All

With this series, we aim to provide a forum for faculty, students, and staff to engage in meaningful conversations and become informed about recent trends and insights in the field of health equity. Participants of this series will gain more knowledge on health disparities and become empowered to engage in actions that contribute to health equity in research, medical education, and for our communities at large.

GENERAL FEATURES OF THE HEALTH EQUITY SPEAKER SERIES

• Seminars from renowned National and Global Health Equity experts.
• Latest developments on social determinants of health and impact on health outcomes.
• How healthcare organizations can engage community organizations to improve health outcomes.
• How healthcare organizations can leverage digital health tools for health equity.
• Success stories on implementing system-wide change towards health equity interventions and programs.

Lunch with the speaker will be available after the presentation.

Join us for the next IEHE Health Equity Speaker Series with Ilseung Cho, MD, Msc. Dr. Cho is the Chief Quality Officer for NYU Langone Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

As the Chief Quality Officer, Dr. Cho organizes and leads clinical quality performance measurement, reporting, and improvement activities across NYU Langone Health, with a special focus on hospital-based care. His efforts include the centralized support and leadership of multi-disciplinary efforts that will assess and improve clinical practices affecting all quality dimensions: effectiveness, safety, timeliness, patient-centeredness, accessibility, and efficiency. His goals are to improve patient outcomes and healthcare delivery through the establishment of integrated and collaborative organization-wide approaches.

Dr. Cho’s research interests focus on the gut microbiome (the community of bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract) and how it affects health and disease. Specifically, he focuses on the effect of the colonic microbiome on metabolism as well as in the development of colorectal cancer through epigenetic mechanisms. His research has been published in a variety of journals, including Nature, Cell, FASEB, PLoS ONE, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Mucosal Immunology, and Nature Reviews Genetics. Dr Cho has contributed to several textbooks, including the current edition of Goldman’s Cecil Medicine, one of the primary textbooks in Internal Medicine. He is the principal or co-investigator on numerous research grants from various organizations including the Doris Duke Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Cho has been featured as an expert commentator for organizations such as CBS, the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and National Public Radio.

Room location

Follow the yellow pathway from the Main Lobby - Alumni Hall B will be to the left, next to the staricase.

Info: Dr. Ilseung Cho is the Chief Quality Officer for NYU Langone Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

Info: Join us for lunch with the speaker and networking with health equity experts, community members, and students.

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