Tracey Conti, MD, is Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC and program director of the UPMC McKeesport Family Medicine Residency, which features Latterman Family Health Center in McKeesport as its clinical site. She also is president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Conti’s interests include health disparities and health care delivery to underserved communities, medical education, and women’s health issues. "You can’t talk about health disparities without also talking about racism in medicine. Until now, that’s been a subject no one really wanted to discuss, but it’s an underlying issue we must understand. This is a deep, multigenerational issue in the Black community. In my parents’ lifetime, the Tuskegee research study followed the lives of Black men with syphilis without ever giving them a diagnosis or treatment. The Black community’s mistrust of medicine has its roots in these and many other act...