The Culturally Responsive Health Care Award is presented to the individual or group that has made conscious decisions to practice culturally responsive health care. This entails activities such as finding out a patient’s history of illness, their beliefs around health care and alternative treatments, and taking care to prevent any language barriers from getting in the way of quality care.
Nominations can be made for individuals or groups, and the recipient can be faculty, staff, or students. The winners of the award will be honored during the Culturally Responsive Health Care conference on Thursday, June 6. Deadline for submissions: Monday, April 1, 2024
Culturally Responsive Health Care Award Winners
2023—
Marina Del Rios, MD, MS
Interpretation and Translation Services team
2022—
Sundara Reddy, MBBS
Maternal Substance Use Disorders Clinic, Department of OBGYN
2021—
Meghan Connett, MD
Spanish-speaking team members of the Internal Medicine Department-Raul Villacreses, MD, Alejandro Pezzulo, MD, Claudia Corwin, MD, Rolando Sanchez, MD, Joseph Zabner, MD, Alejandro Comellas, MD, and Tahuanty Peña, MD
2020—
2019 -
Trudy Laffoon, MA, RN-BC
2018 -
Anjali A. Sharathkumar, MBBS, MD, MS
University of Iowa Children's Hospital Sickle Cell Clinic
2017 -