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Category: November 2021

For November, the Diversity Committee of the ASSH has asked our members what diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of hand surgery means to them. Our members’ personal narratives and desire to help patients in an ever-changing, diverse world are both moving and inspirational.

The Importance of DEI

By Andre D. Ivy, MD What do you see when asked to imagine a “hand surgeon”? What image is conjured? For me, the faces of the abundantly selfless and amazing surgeons who educated me populate my mind. I would be lying if I said that I immediately saw myself, a black male from Cleveland, as […]

Allyship Is Crucial

By DeAsia Jacob, MD It has become so popular to say diversity, equity, and inclusion, but what do those terms really mean and the even more important question is how do we apply them to our everyday lives as hand surgeons? The population of patients we serve is diverse in race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender […]

DEI Is an Opportunity

By Rey N. Ramirez, MD The recent interest in diversity, equity, and inclusion is an opportunity to address the deficiencies in hand surgery. The most glaring of these is the lack of diversity among hand surgeons. If we consider the facts that women comprise over half of our medical student population but less than a […]