Department of Surgery

Beyond the Knife

Anti-Racism and Health Equity

A conversation about
surgery’s role in fighting systemic inequality

Please join us for this inaugural event and celebration of our
Endowed Lecture Series on Health Equity and Social Justice

Thursday, February 18, 2021

4:00 - 5:00 PM

(A zoom link will be provided upon registration)

Keynote Speaker: Cornel West, PhD

Activist, Intellectual, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy,
Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University

Moderator: James “Butch” Rosser, MD, FACS

Clinical Professor of Surgery and International Academic Surgical leader

Department of Surgery

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Discussants

Henry Louis Taylor Jr., PhD '79

Professor, Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban Studies, School of Architecture and Planning

Rita Hubbard-Robinson, JD '86

CEO of NeuWater and Associates LLC, and lead member of the
African American Health Equity Task Force
UB Community Health Equity Research Institute

Timothy Adams, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Frances Uwechue, MD '19
PGY1 General Surgery Resident
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Karole Collier
M.D. Candidate '21
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

“The University at Buffalo's Department of Surgery is committed to sustained action toward a more diverse and equitable world. This is our collective responsibility as physicians and surgeons in the 21st century. I have every confidence that, working together, we can create real and lasting change. Please join us." -Steven Schwaitzberg, MD, FACS

About the
Department of Surgery

Our department achieves high standards of education, research and patient care, all with the goal of bringing surgery to a new level.

The Department of Surgery is composed of dynamic clinical and basic science faculty with diverse experience and clinical skills who help cultivate future surgery leaders. We pride ourselves on ensuring excellence in the department’s three mission areas: patient care, research, and education.

Learn more about our role
in Diversity and Inclusion