FIRESIDE CHAT | When Algorithms Harm: Understanding and Addressing Bias in Clinical Care

Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, FASN, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Emory; and Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, FASCO, Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. For decades, race-based clinical algorithms have shaped diagnosis and treatment decisions across medicine, often without critical examination of their underlying assumptions. Yet race is a social, not biological, construct, and its inclusion in clinical algorithms has perpetuated inequities in care delivery and outcomes. This webinar explores the scientific, ethical, and operational implications of using race in clinical decision tools and the transformational work underway to address these issues. Drs. Eneanya and Smith highlight lessons from nephrology and oncology to eliminate these harmful approaches.

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