Program overview
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA, FASPC (Hon.), presents the Spring 2022 Penn State College of Medicine Dean's Lecture.
Credit
CME credit is available for those who attended live.
Penn State College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Penn State College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Learning objectives
- Explore the history of race in Medicine
- Review the critical glossary- bias, disparities, race and racism
- Address structural barriers to health equity
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA, FASPC (Hon.)
Vice Dean, Diversity & Inclusion
Magerstadt Professor of Medicine
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Associate Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Dr. Clyde Yancy is vice dean of diversity and inclusion, professor of medicine and chief of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He concomitantly serves as associate director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He holds the Magerstadt Endowed Professor of Medicine Chair and holds a concomitant appointment as professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences.
Yancy’s research interests are heart failure, clinical guideline generation, outcomes sciences, personalized medicine and health care disparities. He is extensively published, with more than 650 peer-reviewed publications, an h-index > 100 and annual recognition as one of the most highly cited scientific authors worldwide. Yancy is deputy editor of JAMA Cardiology and senior section editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC): Heart Failure. He also serves on the editorial boards for Circulation, Circulation: Heart Failure, the American Heart Journal and JACC: Heart Failure.
Board certified in internal medicine, with a subspecialty in cardiovascular disease, Yancy has been honored with the designations of Master of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA), Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America and Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. He has served on innumerable clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements writing committees and as chair of the ACC/AHA Heart Failure Clinical Practice Guideline Writing Committee, 2011 - 2020. He is immediate past co-chair of the ACC Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce and former president of the AHA. Yancy is the recipient of the Gold Heart Award, James Herrick Award for distinguished achievement in clinical cardiovascular medicine and the AHA Chairman’s Award. He has completed extensive government service for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Yancy is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (2016) and the American Association of Physicians (2019). In 2018, he was appointed to the Minority Health Affairs Subcommittee, Department of Health and Human Services. In 2021, he received the Mihai Gheorghiade Award for Mentorship and the Gary Mecklenburg Distinguished Physician Award for exemplary professionalism and humanism. And in 2022, he received the “Heart of Gold” award at the 2022 AHA Heart Ball in Chicago.