Dismantling Racism: Building Anti-Racist Psychiatrists Series
Overmedication of Black Patients 

This event is part of our series, Dismantling Racism: Building Anti-Racist Psychiatrists, helping to bring awareness, education, reflection, and empathy to build a community of anti-racist psychiatrists.

Join us for our next installment, Overmedication of Black Patients. This event will discuss the newly published research examining racial disparities in the treatment of psychiatric patients presenting to emergency departments and specifically, the overmedication of Black patients. Lead authors will discuss their research (click here and here) and answer questions. 

We intend for this to be a safe space to collectively share our complex thoughts and emotions surrounding these topics and brainstorm ways we can come together to support each other, colleagues, patients, and the community at large. We hope to see you there!

Event Details
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7:30 PM
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This event is free for everyone to attend.

Speakers:

Ari B. Friedman, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, is Core Faculty at the Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research, and is a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research investigates the unscheduled care system's (primary care clinics, urgent care and retail clinics, telemedicine, and emergency departments) impact on access to care, finances, and health outcomes particularly aging patients and patients made vulnerable through structural racism. His work has been cited more than 2,000 times, with an h-index of 18, and has been published in journals such as Health Affairs, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine. Ari completed his M.D. at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, his Ph.D. in Healthcare Management and Economics at the Wharton School, and his residency at the Harvard Affiliate Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Utsha G. Khatri, MD, MSHP, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Population Health and Policy and research faculty at the Institute for Health Equity Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As a physician and health services researcher, Dr. Khatri is interested in improving access, outcomes, and equity with regard to the health and health care of structurally marginalized populations. Her ongoing projects focus on the health care of individuals and communities affected by mass incarceration and those affected by substance use disorders. Dr. Khatri received her medical degree from the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, she was selected for the National Clinician Scholars Program fellowship and received a Master’s degree in Health Policy Research also at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her appointment as research faculty, Dr. Khatri practices clinically as an attending emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and at Elmhurst Hospital in New York City.