A Message from the FY25 Chief Fellow for Health Equity for the Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division
I am Shejuti Paul. I am honored to be the 2024-2025 Health Equity fellow. My passion for Health Equity work was inspired by my grandfather. My grandfather—a physician in Dhaka, Bangladesh—founded the first free clinic in Dhaka, which is still running to this day. Like him, I want to provide high quality medical care to my community.
Throughout my medical journey, I have seen the devastating impact diseases of hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disease have on patients and their families. I soon realized that we can accomplish only so much during a clinic visit or hospitalization. Rather, by engaging with the communities we serve, meeting with patients and community stakeholders, and collaborating together to build sustainable, creative solutions to problems we can improve healthcare for all.
As the Health Equity chief fellow, I look forward to being a liaison for fellows and faculty within Nephrology to spearhead curricular, clinical, and outreach initiatives with the goal of fostering thoughtful physician leaders and building best practices to improve medical care. I also plan to foster increased community outreach within the West Philadelphia Community. I will be working with the Penn Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program and Penn Endocrinology to organize two large health screenings in the West Philadelphia community focused on diabetes education and chronic kidney disease awareness. I also hope to work on other community outreach initiatives.
It is truly an honor to work with Dr. Reddy, BLOOM Health Equity fellows from other specialties, and other Health Equity leaders at Penn to address barriers to health care and deliver patient-centered medicine for all people.
A Message from Dr. Yuvaram Reddy
Welcome to the Penn Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division!
We are committed to addressing the well-documented disparities in kidney disease through clinical care, quality improvement, medical education, and research. To accomplish this goal, we aim to:
- Provide high quality training in health equity
- Advance efforts to ensure equal opportunities are available for people at all levels within the Division
- Leverage rigorous research methods to understand and address health inequities.
As part of our commitment towards advancing these goals, we are proud to sponsor a Chief Fellow for Health Equity. Every year we will encourage second-year fellows to apply for the position to work closely with the faculty within the Division to advance our goals. They will receive structured training and mentorship to facilitate a health equity project focused on quality improvement, research, medical education, or community engagement. Since 2022, we have had several fellows in this role who have gone on to complete projects, receive grants and awards for their projects, and present findings at local events and national conferences.
If you are passionate about health equity or you are committed to ensuring people are treated with mutual empathy and respect please know that we at the Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division value your interests and are dedicated to training the next generation of leaders in health equity.
Sincerely,
Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Apply to the Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Fellowship Program
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