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Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

The UCLA Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine along with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA aim for excellence in the areas of education, research, community engagement, and clinical care. Our core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are absolutely inseparable from these institutional goals. We understand that we are situated in the middle of Los Angeles, an incredibly diverse city with an equally diverse patient population. A critical part of our mission is to recruit a group of fellows who shares in these goals and our mission to serve the greater Los Angeles community. In doing so, our fellows deliver care in many practice environments, including the ability to serve our affiliated county site, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, as well as the honor of serving our veterans at the West Los Angeles VA hospital. Many choose to pursue health services research, often incorporating formal training through the STAR program and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Our division has an EDI taskforce with the mission of fostering inclusivity, advocacy, reducing disparities via research initiatives, and promoting awareness within the Division. One of the co-chairs of the EDI taskforce is our program's Associate Program Director, Dr. Roxana Hixson. At UCLA our fellows have the opportunity to engage in a number of EDI activities to promote community building, open dialogue and lifelong learning in the health equity and advocacy space. Furthermore, the fellowship is LGBTQIA+ affirming and UCLA Health is consistently rated highly by the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index. Please refer to the UCLA Health LGBTQ Resources webpage for further information here: https://www.uclahealth.org/lgbtq. Check out highlights from our GME Equity and Diversity Inclusion and our Department of Medicine Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to learn more.

Lastly we invite you to view a UCLA-affiliated campaign to inspire persons from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to become physicians, entitled “Black Men in White Coats” featuring our own recent graduate of the UCLA pulmonary/critical care fellowship class of 2020 and co-chair of our EDI taskforce, Dr. Wale Amubieya.