Speaker
Bill Schwab
Professor, Vice Chair for Education, and Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education in the School of Medicine and Public Health
William E. “Bill” Schwab, M.D., (he/him) is professor and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and is assistant dean for graduate medical education at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Schwab attended UW–Madison as an undergrad and earned his medical degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He went on to complete his family practice residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After residency, he worked as a family physician at a community health center in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. He joined the UW faculty in 1985 and has been a clinically active family physician at the department’s Northeast Family Medical Center since then
Speaking in
Striving to Become an Antiracist Department: Strategies for Sustained Engagement and Transformation
In response to the global social justice movement of 2020, the members of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee in the UW–Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health set out to develop and execute an “antiracism 2.0” proposal for the department, which would build on the innovative strategies from their 2014 DEI Initiative. In this session, panelists will share strategies for building the capacity to develop an antiracist, multicultural department in a sustainable way.
The panelists will share the results of an internal climate assessment and a racial equity and inclusion assessment. They will discuss how they incorporated introspective opportunities for personal learning and growth; shared spaces for groups to learn together and build a culture of belonging in the department; and developed institutional strategies for change with a goal to build infrastructure, capacity, partnerships, and leadership to assure enduring change. The session hopes to inspire attendees to pursue change in their own departments and units across campus.