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Posted: Wednesday, February 7, 2024Ron Stewart, Professor and Chair, Sociology
Ron Stewart, department chair and professor of sociology, will serve as a local expert on a panel discussion hosted by the UB Department of Surgery exploring the impact of structural racism on families and neighborhoods on Thursday, February 22, at 5:30 p.m. in the M&T Auditorium at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.
The discussion will follow the keynote “Structural Racism and Persistent Inequality,” presented by Deadric T. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
This is the fourth annual talk in the “Beyond the Knife” endowed lectureship series, which the UB Department of Surgery established following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 to foster difficult conversations surrounding racism and health care in the United States. The series aims to take “sustained action toward a more diverse and equitable world.”
The event is free and open to the public in person or on Zoom. Please register online or email Mike Lamb, M.D., Ph.D., director of surgical education in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The Zoom link will be provided before the talk.
Panelists are
- LaVonne Ansari, Ph.D., CEO and director, Community Health Center of Buffalo Inc.
- Rita Hubbard-Robinson, J.D., CEO, NeuWater Associates LLC
- Chandra Redfern, CEO, Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers
- Ron Stewart, Ph.D., professor and chair, Sociology Department, SUNY Buffalo State
