Overview
Join AGA Allied Group, the Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists (ABGH), for their second annual NEXUS: Nurturing, Excelling, and Unifying Sisters in Medicine Conference in the heart of NYC from Oct. 3 through 5, ABGH will gather hundreds of Black women in healthcare across all subspecialties and disciplines for connection, collaboration, and celebration. ABGH cannot wait to welcome you for a weekend of growth and community that will leave you fulfilled and at your best when caring for patients who need our help the most.
RegisterLearning objectives
- Identify barriers and solutions to navigate effective career advancement in the context of intersectionality
- Understand how to capitalize on professional resources to advance health equity
- Discuss ways in which racism in medicine weaponizes the concept of professionalism in daily practice and protocols and how to overcome these systemic obstacles
- Develop skills to allow Black women health care professionals to lead in their careers, contribute to research, collaborate professionally, and enrich the pathway to increasing the number of Black women in medicine
- Identify actionable steps for advocacy and activism as a healthcare professional (NEW for 2025)
- Explore disparate cancer outcomes experienced by Black women, and highlight advancements in the field to study this patient population (NEW for 2025)
- Explore disparate cancer outcomes experienced by Black women, and highlight advancements in the field to study this patient population (NEW for 2025)
Pricing
Commercial support
This program is supported by Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Pfizer, Takeda, Ironwood.
Agenda
All times are Eastern.
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10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Session Sub-title 1
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10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Session Sub-title 2
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11:00 - 12:00 midday
Session Sub-title 3
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12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Session Sub-title 1
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10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Session Sub-title 2
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11:00 - 12:00 midday
Session Sub-title 3
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12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Course Faculty
Course Director
Pascale M. White, MD
Director | Heath Equity in Action in Liver and Digestive Diseases (HEALD) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alexandra Guillaume, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Sophie Balzora, MD
President, Co-founder
Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists Clinical Professor of Medicine NYU Grossman School of Medicine