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dailyutahchronicle.com Dr. Vivian Lee spoke on diversity at the Keynote Address for the 38th annual Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2563263 Inequality in health care drains custom aid, Lee says by: Jake Stout on January 19, 2012 Dr. Vivian Lee, senior vice president for Health Sciences, said her struggles in science as a minority have given her perspective in what the U can do to help others with health care. “Diversity and inclusion open minds to new ideas which will ultimately help us advance medicine,” Lee said in her speech Wednesday at the Us Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was raised in Oklahoma. She said she is acutely aware of the difficulties that women of color face in science. She also spoke about the difficulties girls in China face as a result of the country’s family-planning policies, which favor boys, and the adversities that women and minorities have faced throughout history. Lee said despite these obstacles, women, immigrants and minorities have produced some of the greatest scientists, citing Marie Curie, a Polish scientist who discovered radium and coined the word “radioactivity.” “Much of the talent and overwhelming resourcefulness in this country comes from immigrants with dreams,” she said. “The University of Utah must be one of those places that fosters these talents.” Lee also spoke about inequality in health care, bemoaning the current national situation. Minorities in the United States have a profoundly higher rate of severe diseases with less accessibility to health care and treatment, which puts a tremendous strain on the entire nation, she said. However, she said this inequality isn’t just caused by accessibility problems, but rather a tendency to use a one-size-fits-all approach to diagnoses and treatment. “What we need is personalized medicine,” she said. “A better understanding of gene diversity and its proper application will lead to better and proper treatments … This will make for a more streamlined approach to treatment, reducing costs and increasing accessibility.” Lee said diversity forces people to open their minds to new ideas and challenges they would have otherwise overlooked. Following her keynote, a member of the audience asked Lee how the U plans to keep the incentive for funding while balancing affordability and accessibility. She said although administrators have yet to figure out how to keep cost and affordability balanced with research and accessibility, the options look promising. Two students had never heard of the one-size-fits-all approach. “It’s shocking,” a student said. “We obviously can’t base our medicine on a one-size-fits-all model if we want to get anywhere.” “I hope this practice isn’t just on paper and that we are actually applying it in medicine. More people need to be aware of this problem,” another student said. Short URL: http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2563263
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Dr. Vivian Lee spoke on diversity at the Keynote Address for the 38th annual Celebration of MartinLuther King Jr.
http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2563263
Inequality in health care drains custom aid, Lee saysby: Jake Stout on January 19, 2012
Dr. Vivian Lee, senior vice president for Health Sciences, said her struggles in science asa minority have given her perspective in what the U can do to help others with health care.
“Diversity and inclusion open minds to new ideas which will ultimately help us advance medicine,”Lee said in her speech Wednesday at the Us Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
Lee, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was raised in Oklahoma. She said she is acutely awareof the difficulties that women of color face in science. She also spoke about the difficulties girls inChina face as a result of the country’s family-planning policies, which favor boys, and the adversitiesthat women and minorities have faced throughout history.
Lee said despite these obstacles, women, immigrants and minorities have produced some of thegreatest scientists, citing Marie Curie, a Polish scientist who discovered radium and coined theword “radioactivity.”
“Much of the talent and overwhelming resourcefulness in this country comes from immigrants withdreams,” she said. “The University of Utah must be one of those places that fosters these talents.”
Lee also spoke about inequality in health care, bemoaning the current national situation. Minoritiesin the United States have a profoundly higher rate of severe diseases with less accessibility tohealth care and treatment, which puts a tremendous strain on the entire nation, she said.
However, she said this inequality isn’t just caused by accessibility problems, but rather a tendencyto use a one-size-fits-all approach to diagnoses and treatment.
“What we need is personalized medicine,” she said. “A better understanding of gene diversity andits proper application will lead to better and proper treatments … This will make for a morestreamlined approach to treatment, reducing costs and increasing accessibility.”
Lee said diversity forces people to open their minds to new ideas and challenges they would haveotherwise overlooked.
Following her keynote, a member of the audience asked Lee how the U plans to keep the incentivefor funding while balancing affordability and accessibility. She said although administrators have yetto figure out how to keep cost and affordability balanced with research and accessibility, the optionslook promising.
Two students had never heard of the one-size-fits-all approach.
“It’s shocking,” a student said. “We obviously can’t base our medicine on a one-size-fits-all model ifwe want to get anywhere.”
“I hope this practice isn’t just on paper and that we are actually applying it in medicine. More peopleneed to be aware of this problem,” another student said.
Short URL: http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/?p=2563263
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