1.4 million AANHPI healthcare workers make up 8.5% of all essential healthcare workers. AANHPI immigrants make up the vast majority of these workers. Almost a million frontline critical healthcare workers are immigrants. In California, the AANHPI population is even more critical to the healthcare system, which makes up 26.3%, the highest share of the healthcare workforce. Stanford Medicine, and the field of medicine broadly, would not be what they are today without the passion, insights, and excellence of our Asian and AANHPI faculty, students, postdocs, and staff.
However, there is a lack of representation of Asian Americans in leadership. At U.S. medical schools, only 9% of female department chairs and 11% of male department chairs are Asian American, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Please join us to hear Asian Leaders share their career journey and examine how Asian American healthcare leaders often face the bamboo ceiling due to racial and gender bias and stereotyping and what is needed to drive change forward and strategies needed to unravel the structural inequalities faced by Asian
Americans in the workplace.
Panelists:
- Dr. Stephanie Harman, Clinical Associate Professor of Primary Care and Population Health and Associate Chair for Women in Medicine
- Tip Y. Kim, Chief Market Development Officer at Stanford Health Care
- Anh Hoang, Director of Perianesthesia, Stanford Health Care
- Dr. Kekoa Taparra, MD Ph.D., Radiation Oncology Physician-Scientist Trainee at Stanford Medicine
Moderator:
- Kristen Hwang, New Reporter from CalMatters.
This event is sponsored by Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education in partnership with Stanford Health Care API & Allies ERG and the Department of Medicine’s Diversity and Inclusion Council.
