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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care; Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, editors. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2003.

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Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.

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COMMITTEE ON UNDERSTANDING AND ELIMINATING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE

  • ALAN R. NELSON, M.D., (Chair), retired physician and current Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine, Washington, DC
  • MARTHA N. HILL, Ph.D., R.N., (Co-Vice Chair), Interim Dean, Professor and Director, Center for Nursing Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
  • RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY, M.D., M.B.A., (Co-Vice Chair), Senior Vice President Health Care Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
  • JOSEPH R. BETANCOURT, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy, Director for Multicultural Education, Multicultural Affairs Office, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA
  • M. GREGG BLOCHE, J.D., M.D., Professor of Law, Georgetown University and Co-Director of the Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health, Washington, DC
  • W. MICHAEL BYRD, M.D., M.P.H., Instructor and Senior Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health, and Instructor/Staff Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA
  • JOHN F. DOVIDIO, Ph.D., Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Interim Provost and Dean of Faculty, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
  • JOSE ESCARCE, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Natural Scientist, RAND and Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  • SANDRA ADAMSON FRYHOFER, M.D., MACP, practicing internist and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
  • THOMAS INUI, Sc.M., M.D., Senior Scholar, Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo and Petersdorf Scholar-in-Residence, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC.
  • JENNIE R. JOE, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and Director of the Native American Research and Training Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • THOMAS McGUIRE, Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • CAROLINA REYES, M.D., Vice President, Planning and Evaluation, The California Endowment, Woodland Hills, CA
  • DONALD STEINWACHS, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public health, and Director, Johns Hopkins University Health Services Research and Development Center, Baltimore, MD
  • DAVID R. WILLIAMS, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Sociology and Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Health Sciences Policy Board Liaison

  • GLORIA E. SARTO, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, University of Wisconsin Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Madison, WI

IOM Project Staff

  • BRIAN D. SMEDLEY, Study Director
  • ADRIENNE Y. STITH, Program Officer
  • DANIEL J. WOOTEN, Scholar-in-Residence
  • THELMA L. COX, Senior Project Assistant
  • SYLVIA I. SALAZAR, Edward Roybal Public Health Fellow, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute

IOM Staff

  • ANDREW M. POPE, Director, Board on Health Sciences Policy
  • ALDEN CHANG, Administrative Assistant
  • CARLOS GABRIEL, Financial Associate
  • PAIGE BALDWIN, Managing Editor

Copy Editor

  • JILL SHUMAN
Copyright 2002 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Bookshelf ID: NBK220365

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