This session’s goal is to equip participants with tools that improve patient care, and cross-cultural interactions with patients and colleagues. Via engaging activities, participants will leave with a deep understanding of microaggressions, their impact, and how to appropriately respond when making a microaggression and observing one. Participants will also leave with insight and motivation to be effective allies for those from marginalized backgrounds. Finally, participants will leave with an appreciation for the concept of privilege and how recognizing one’s own privileges can foster empathy for others. Lunch is included (in case of dietary restrictions, please email tciplus@takecontrolok.org).
Objectives:
- Recognize microaggressions and effectively respond when encountering them.
- Understand allyship and practice strategies to be an effective ally.
- Embrace the concept of privilege by exploring one’s own privileges, as a means to foster empathy for others.
Speaker Bio: Founder and CEO of Lean In LLC, a diversity, equity, inclusion and health equity consulting firm, Dr. Jabraan Pasha is a practicing physician and educator, who is dedicated to the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion. He received his undergraduate and medical degree from the University of Kansas, and his internal medicine residency training at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Having presented 200+ times nationally and internationally, Jabraan is an experienced diversity equity and inclusion facilitator whose compassionate, empathetic and disarming presentation style has helped many individuals and organizations grow closer to becoming their best selves. A 2022 Aspen Health Communities fellow, Jabraan’s career is dedicated to health equity. He has received numerous awards for his leadership and diversity, equity and inclusion work, including the American College of Physicians’ W. Lester Henry Award for Diversity Equity and Inclusion in 2023, and Tulsa of the Year award from The Tulsa World in 2024.