Hi, everyone.

Hi, everyone. This is Sid Krishnamurthy. Welcome back to another episode of the anti-racism and medicine series of the Clinical Problem Solvers podcast. As always, our goal on this podcast is to equip our listeners at all levels of training with the consciousness

and tools to practice anti-racism in their health professions careers.

This will be our second ever live in-person episode and third year in a row at the Society

of General Internal Medicine Conference.

And so far, this is the only conference that we've

been to as a podcast. So I know I speak for the team when I say that this session has become

something quite special to us, especially because we get to do it live and with an audience

who participate and ask questions at the end as well. This year's episode is focused on the

importance of language in medicine and the role it can play in perpetuating stigma and bias.

So today to talk about this with us, we have three incredible guests. I also have my amazing co-host,

Ashley Cooper. I'll let Ashley take it away in introducing our first guest. Thank you, Sud. And I'm

going to start by introducing Dr. Sam Saha. Dr. Saha received his medical degree in postgraduate training in internal medicine from

the University of California, San Francisco, and completed postdoctoral training in the Robert

Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Washington, where he obtained a master's

degree in public health. He subsequently worked at OHSU and the Portland VA for two decades before

moving to John Hopkins University. Dr. Saha's research focuses broadly on the influence of race and

racism in the doctor-patient relationship, its relation to disparities in the quality of health care,

and its implications for diversity in the health care workforce. He has also served as a council member and

secretary of S-GIM. He has been a research advisor or mentor for over 50 students, fellows, and junior

faculty, over a third of whom have been from racial, slash ethnic groups underrepresented in

medicine and science. Thank you so much for being here with us today. So I'll go ahead and introduce our second guest, Dr. Mary

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