Perspective Roundtable Race in Medicine — Genetic Variation, Social Categories, and Paths to Health Equity Michele K. Evans, M.D., Joseph L. Graves, Jr., Ph.D., Ruth S. Shim, M.D., M.P.H., Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D. and Winfred W. Williams, M.D. Introductions DR. MICHELE EVANS: Welcome to the Race and Medicine Roundtable hosted by the New England Journal of Medicine. My name is Michele Evans. I am the deputy scientific director at the National Institute on Aging. I will serve as the moderator today. In addition, I'm a member of the NEJM editorial board. I'm joined today by several esteemed panelists: Dr. Joseph Graves, Dr. Ruth Shim, Dr. Sarah Tishkoff, and Dr. Win Williams. DR. JOSEPH GRAVES: My name is Joseph Graves, Jr. I am a professor of biological sciences at North Carolina A&T State University. My research concerns the genomics of adaptation as well as biological and social conceptions of race in humans. DR. RUTH SHIM: Hi, everyone. My name is Ruth Shim. I am the Luke and Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry at the University of California at Davis. I'm also the associate dean of diverse and inclusive education at the University of California at Davis and the School of Medicine. My background relates to structural racism as it relates to mental health, and the outcomes of racism and the impact on mental health. DR. SARAH TISHKOFF: Hello, my name is Sarah Tishkoff. I'm a professor in the Departments of Genetics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. I'm also the director of the Center for Global Genomics and Health Equity at the University of Pennsylvania. My research focuses on studies of the human population genetic diversity with a focus on Africa. I study human evolutionary history in Africa and the genetic basis of both normal variable traits as well as disease risk, with an emphasis on people of African ancestry DR. WIN WILLIAMS: Hello. My name is Dr. Win Williams. I'm the associate chief of the Division of Nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. I'm also the founding director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at MGH, and also The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org on May 17, 2022. For personal use only. No other uses without permission. Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.