Cultural Issues in Healthcare: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

Renay Scales, (Formerly employed by University of Kentucky College of Medicine as: ), Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Associate Professor in Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Dr. Renay Scales has served on three (3) presidential teams and in other leadership capacity in corporate, healthcare and higher education organizations. Her leadership responsibilities have included talent acquisition and management relations, faculty relations and development and DEI. She has also taught or trained undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and medical students and residents on organizational and practice behavior, leadership, and health equity related competencies. Named a national clinical faculty member in family medicine by the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME), she writes and reviews all levels of board exam questions in ethics and jurisprudence. Scales had oversight of a global health program between a former U.S. initiative and the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa.

Dr. Scales' work has been acknowledged through a best practice award by OCR, MLK Civil Leadership Awards, a Barrier Breaker Award, and recently, was acknowledged by the National Accrediting Commission for Diversity and Inclusion as Professional of the Month during Women's History Month. She is a former member of the National Advisory Council for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) and former board member of the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI). Her role as a leadership consultant includes work with more than 80 academic schools, colleges and universities. Scales' research and scholarship primarily addresses health equity with a focus on cultural traumas. She has widely presented her research and praxis, and was recently the keynote for the International Association of Medical and Science Education's annual conference.

Asia McCleary-Gaddy, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, USA

Dr. Asia McCleary-Gaddy serves as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for McGovern Medical School. Asia serves the UTHealth community through design and implementation of policies and procedures that support diversity and inclusion, recruitment and retention of URM faculty and students, program evaluation and data analysis for students, residents, and faculty members. Dedicated to furthering the empirical research published on diversity and health, she has published in leading journals including Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Health Psychology, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Previously, Dr. McCleary-Gaddy served asthe inaugural Director of Diversity and Equity for Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and helped launch the institution's high school pipeline/pathway programs. Prior to that role, she served as a Data Analyst for the Vermont Department of Health in Burlington, VT where she analyzed data for the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Dr. McCleary-Gaddy earned a PhD in Experimental Social Psychology. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a distinction in Research and Creative Works from Rice University.

Renay Scales（曾任職肯塔基大學醫學院）是肯塔基大學醫學院的多元與包容性副院長、家庭與社區醫學副教授，位於美國肯塔基州列克星敦市。

Renay Scales博士曾在企業、醫療保健和高等教育機構的三個總統團隊以及其他領導職務上服務。她的領導責任包括人才招聘和管理關係、教職員工關係和發展以及多元性、包容性和公平性（DEI）。她還教授或培訓本科生、研究生、博士生、醫學生和住院醫師，教授組織和實踐行為、領導和健康公平相關的能力。她被美國骨科醫學考試委員會（NBOME）評為國家家庭醫學臨床教學成員，負責撰寫和審查倫理和法律考試的各級考題。Scales博士監督了美國一個前期計劃與南非夸祖魯-納塔爾大學之間的全球健康計劃。

Scales博士的工作獲得了OCR最佳實踐獎、MLK民權領導獎、突破障礙獎，最近在婦女歷史月期間被國家多元與包容性認證委員會（National Accrediting Commission for Diversity and Inclusion）評為專業人士。她曾是國家種族和族裔問題全國會議（NCORE）的國家顧問委員會成員，以及國家聯盟建設研究所（NCBI）的前任董事會成員。她作為領導力顧問的角色包括與80多所學術學校、學院和大學合作。Scales博士的研究和學術主要關注健康公平，尤其是文化創傷。她廣泛發表了她的研究成果，最近還擔任國際醫學和科學教育協會年度會議的主題演講嘉賓。

Asia McCleary-Gaddy博士是德克薩斯大學健康科學中心休斯頓分校的精神病學和行為科學助理教授。

Asia McCleary-Gaddy博士擔任休斯頓德克薩斯大學健康科學中心的多元與包容性主任，以及麥戈文醫學院的精神病學和行為科學助理教授。Asia通過制定和實施支持多元與包容性的政策和程序，招聘和留住少數族裔教職員工和學生，為學生、住院醫師和教職員工進行計劃評估和數據分析，為進一步推動多樣性和健康的實證研究做出貢獻，她在領先期刊上發表了多篇文章，包括《行為醫學年鑒》、《健康心理學期刊》和《平等、多樣性和包容性》。

在此之前，McCleary-Gaddy博士曾擔任哈肯薩克梅里迪安醫學院的多樣性和公平主任，並協助推動該機構的高中預備計劃。在擔任該職務之前，她曾在佛蒙特州伯靈頓的佛蒙特州衛生部擔任數據分析師，為Healthy People 2020計劃分析數據。McCleary-Gaddy博士獲得了實驗社會心理學博士學位，並擁有萊斯大學心理學學士學位，研究和創作成果獲得了優異成就。