Equity Rounds: Language Bias in Cardiology
Dr. Michelle Keir and Joel Adekanye present Equity Rounds: Language Bias in Cardiology as part of Cardiac Sciences Grand Rounds on Sept. 12, 2023 in Calgary Alberta.
About the Speakers
Michelle Keir was born in Windsor, Ontario. She moved to Ottawa where she completed an undergraduate journalism degree at Carleton University and her MD at the University of Ottawa. She then completed Internal Medicine and Adult Cardiology residencies at the University of Saskatchewan where she concurrently completed her Masters degree in Community Health, Epidemiology, and Population Science. She then went on to Fellowships in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the University of Toronto and Echocardiography at the University of Calgary. She worked in Calgary at the Southern Alberta Adult Congenital Heart Clinic at the Peter Lougheed Centre since 2017. Research interests include: complex adult congenital heart disease, aortopathy, cardiac disorders of pregnancy, mixed methods and health systems research.
Joel Adekanye is a third-year PhD Candidate in Community Health Sciences (Epidemiology Specialization). He is a medical graduate from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA. His research interests are at the intersection of shared decision-making, patient-reported outcomes measures, and clinical trials in cardiovascular care.