# @upmchealthbeat on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-04-21T19:03:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UPMC (@upmchealthbeat) — https://gondola.cc/upmchealthbeat

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Naudia N. Jonassaint, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a hepatologist at the UPMC Center for Liver Diseases. In January 2019, she was appointed the Department of Medicine’s first vice chair for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dr. Jonassaint’s research focuses on preoperative risk assessment in transplantation and explores disparities in liver transplant outcomes.

"The pipeline of minorities entering the STEM fields is extremely important to me. My dream is to be a leader in health care delivery. But I realize the health care workforce will never be representative of our country if we stick to our standard measures of merit. When we look simply at scores on a single examination, we are not measuring someone’s ability to be a great physician or surgeon: We are measuring their ability to take that test on that day. There is a bias in “meritocracy” and as a society we have to grapple with that.

Within the next 20 years, there will be no racial majority in this country. We are entering a time of profound cultural shift. We need to evolve in our understanding of how diverse populations are cared for.

How are we going to evolve in health care? Can our medical school get in front of what our workforce looks like so we can provide the kind of inclusive care that people want and desire? My goal is to ensure that we, as an institution, are constantly thinking about how we evolve our workforce and our environment." #NationalMinorityHealthMonth

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