Honoring and celebrating
diversity
The Health Sciences Center community is a microcosm of the world, with people
from different backgrounds, countries, ethnicities, and gender identities.
To promote understanding and appreciation for the ethnic and cultural differences
among us, the Health Sciences Office of Diversity at UCD is hosting a week
of activities April 4-8.
Monday, April 4
Noon – 1 p.m., Denison Auditorium
Respect Panel
Health Sciences community members will discuss issues of respect, civility
and diversity on campus from their individual perspectives. The panel will
also address questions from the audience.
1:30 – 3:30 p.m., SOM Room 1665
Office of Diversity Open House
Tuesday, April 5
Noon – 1 p.m., Sabin Auditorium
Panel: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Sexuality
1 – 2 p.m., Sabin Auditorium
The Child with an Intersex Condition: Total Patient Care – David Iris
Cameron.
Cameron, a member of the Board of Directors of the Intersex Society of North
America, will speak on his experiences as a person with XXY sex chromosomes
and show the short video The Child with an Intersex Condition; Total Patient
Care. Discussion to follow. Sponsored by the Health Sciences GLBTI, Friends
and Allies Committee and the GLBT Community Center of Colorado.
Wednesday, April 6
11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Fitzsimons, RC-1
Art Show
Noon – 1:30 p.m., Denison Auditorium
Keynote: Cultural Humility in the Era of Cultural Competence
Melanie Tervalon, MD, MPH, a pediatrician, health care consultant and long-time
resident of Oakland, Calif., is a member of the Alameda County Children and
Families Commission and has also served as senior advisor for special projects
in the Office of the President at The California Endowment, a health care
foundation.
How can we cross so much social, cultural and linguistic territory with individuals
and families that we serve and be knowledgeable, effective and respectful
at the same time? And how can we be certain, that with all of this, we are
doing the best job? Cultural humility offers one approach to the practice
of cultural competence in today’s socially and culturally complex health
care settings. Dr. Tervalon’s interactive keynote talk addresses definitions
surrounding the terms cultural competence and cultural humility, as well as
the terms race, ethnicity and racism, which are central to this dialogue.
Dr. Tervalon will include the audience in the process of understanding and
using concepts and terms, engaging in constructive dialogue in areas of uncertainty
and disagreement, and learning about our limitations and strengths in the
arena of culture and health.
2 – 4 p.m., Sabin Auditorium
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Mental Health
Ruby Martinez, RN, PhD, School of Nursing
Thursday, April 7
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Nighthorse Campbell
Native Health Building at Fitzsimons
Third Annual Diversity Research Exchange
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Fitzsimons Campus, west of Bldg.
500 (rain plan: Bldg. 500 ground floor)
Latino Staff and Faculty Council Chili Cook-Off
To participate, contact Kelly.casias@uchsc.edu
4:30 – 6:30 p.m., Nighthorse Campbell Native
Health Building at Fitzsimons
Community Reception in Celebration of Diversity
RSVP 303-315-8558
Join members of the Downtown Denver and Health Sciences communities in celebration
of diversity. Annual diversity awards will be presented.
Friday, April 8
10 a.m. – noon, 3rd floor lecture hall, SOM
Cultural Competency in Research
Sheana Bull, PhD, UCD Colorado Health Outcomes
11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Ninth Ave. Campus, in the
Quadrangle (rain plan: cancelled)
Latino Staff and Faculty Council Chili Cook-Off
To participate, contact Kelly.casias@uchsc.edu
6 – 9 p.m., Nighthorse Campbell Native Health
Building
Colorado Physicians of Color – organizational meeting, DU Regional Institute
for Health and Environment. For more information, contact Oswaldo.Grenardo@uchsc.edu
For more information about the cultural diversity activities, contact the
Health Sciences Office of Diversity at 303-315-2560.
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