In honor of Black History Month, our February webinar session will be focused on the effects of historical trauma in Black patients. In healthcare, Black patients have suffered traumatic events from being used in medical trials without consent, to having the worst outcomes from treatments that white patients benefit from. There are data that have proven disparities have not improved, but rather have remained the same over the course of centuries or become tragically worse.

This conversation will be moderated by one of MAHEC’s honor students, Seth Bellamy. Seth is a high school student who is in his senior year and is participating in the Medical Minority Mentoring Program. Our speakers are Kimberly Knight, MSW, LCSWA from the Orange County Department on Aging in Raleigh, North Carolina; Frederick Murphy, LCMHC from Atrium Health and Founder of the History Before Us Project in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Felicia Hipp, MSN, RN, CNE, Chief of Clinical Operations and Director of Nursing at MAHEC.

Join us for this conversation on Friday, February 12, 2021 at Noon.