How a Stanford radiologist is tackling the field’s diversity problem
Stanford pediatric radiologist Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, believes radiology has a diversity problem and is spearheading a long-term approach within the university’s own department and across the entire field.
She recently outlined her approach in an article in Scope, a Stanford Medicine-affiliated blog.
The first step, she says, is educating colleagues and hiring committees within her radiology department to support diversity and inclusion.
“Think of an orchestra playing a symphony. To play a symphony, you need different musicians, you cannot play a symphony with 20 trumpets or 20 violins, you need a broad range of different instruments, and I think this is very much true for medicine and science,” said Daldrup-Link in the story. “We need people with different abilities, backgrounds and thought processes in order to be creative and generate solutions—and in the hospital, to serve a diverse patient population.”
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