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Dr. Brittani James and Dr. Brandi Jackson, twin sisters, are committed to dismantling racism in medicine. Through their schooling they experienced racism because they were Black. Nevertheless, they earned admission and full scholarships to Ivy League schools. James, a family medicine doctor, and Jackson, a psychiatrist, have developed anti-racist coursework used in two Chicago medical schools. They also co-founded the Institute for Antiracism in Medicine, where physicians can earn continuing medical education credit for taking classes on how their profession has made Black patients sicker. They are having impact; the American Medical Association (AMA) wants to consult them as it develops its plan to address institutional racism inside its organization. The sisters have turned the pain of the racism they faced growing up into a powerful purpose, seeking to eliminate racism in medicine.
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