Tackling Bias in Healthcare with Angela Marshall, MD
Press Release
Thursday, October 3, at 6:00 p.m.
BAR HARBOR—Dr. Angela Marshall will discuss her book Dismissed: Tackling the Biases that Undermine Our Healthcare and explore ways we can empower patients and providers to ensure better care for all.
Dr. Marshall’s talk will begin at 6:30, but arrive early for an author’s reception beginning at 6:00 p.m. Attendees will have a chance to settle in and chat with Dr. Marshall. Refreshments and light snacks will be served.
Angela Marshall, MD, is the author of Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine Our Healthcare. A nationally recognized expert in women’s healthcare, she is a board-certified internist, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and the founder of Comprehensive Women’s Health, a primary-care practice for women in the Washington, DC area. Dr. Marshall is also the immediate past chair of the board of directors for Black Women's Health Imperative, the oldest national nonprofit aimed at achieving health equity for Black women around the globe.
Copies of Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care will be for sale, courtesy of Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops.
This program is presented by the Mount Desert Island YWCA and co-sponsored by the Jesup Memorial Library, Northern Light Health, Healthy Acadia, MDI REWG, Juneteenth Downeast, Greater Bangor Area Branch NAACP, Bar Harbor Congregational Church, and Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops.
CME credit available for healthcare providers who attend in person.
This event is free and in-person or online. Register here: https://www.jesuplibrary.org/events/marshall
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