I’m a Black doctor. To my Black patients, DEI matters. | Opinion inquirer.com/opinion/commen… via @phillyinquirer
Written by me on why the Educate Act should not pass!

🚨 Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS & I have new work in JAMA Network Open. We discuss the impact of community-informed NYC Parks renovations in poor Black+Latino n’hoods➡️ increased sedentary park use. Good neighborhood investment & improvement model for community health.🌳
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Thank you Amy Edmondson for reading & writing a blurb for MicroSkills. Amy Edmonson is a Harvard Business School (@HarvardHBS) Professor, Author of 'Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well', & leading expert in psychological safety @ work.

Her support is everything.

New research explores the perspectives of Black patients on racism within emergency care ft. Anish Agarwal, Rachel Gonzales, Charlotte Sagan, Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA, Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS (@UPennEM), Sally Nijim & David Asch (@PennMedicine) Penn LDI Penn Med Transformation & Innovation tinyurl.com/mtzudhdk

Many to thank who have & continue to help me grow and inspire me to do meaningful work— Joshua J. Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD Johns Hopkins UH Residents Leonard Feldman Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA AMFDP NCSP at Penn just to name a few 🙏🏼 (there are so many unnamed here!!)

This is such a labor of love for community and deep commitment to collective impact. Thank you Fairriona Magee The Trace and thank you Nazsa Baker, PhD, MA DocJoRich Jordan Costa Tanya L Sharpe, MSW, PhD
An Emerging Group of Researchers Is Changing Our Understanding of Gun Violence thetrace.org/2024/03/black-…

1/ 🚨📰💡 NEW in American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) w/Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS, Keven Cabrera, Tyler Winkelman MD MSc, Aditi Vasan

We highlight how children exposed to #neighborhoodviolence have worse mental health, ⬆️ acute care utilization, and ⬆️ unmet physical & mental health care needs.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In Philadelphia, city government is making a strong push to revert back to failed War on Drugs policies and do away with harm reduction altogether.

Shoshi Aronowitz, PhD, CRNP & I wrote a piece arguing for evidence-based solutions, out today in the The Philadelphia Inquirer
inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Some personal news: I’m going to be an assistant professor in general medicine & health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Grateful for the mentors & friends continue to support & guide me along the way. And humbled, thrilled, honored, etc etc. 🌞🌴

Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice is hiring a senior Project Manager to lead Deeply Rooted!! DR is a community-academic collaborative that leverages the healing power of nature to promote health/safety in Black neighborhoods. More info/apply here: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiti…

COME WORK WITH US! This project is awesome and the CHJ team is full of some of the most passionate and dedicated people with a diversity of thought and experiences. Come to work every day excited about what you do!!

Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice is hiring a senior Project Manager to lead Deeply Rooted!! DR is a community-academic collaborative that leverages the healing power of nature to promote health/safety in Black neighborhoods. More info/apply here: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiti…

It’s my pub day! 📚 🎉🥳

My new book LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine 🩺 is finally out in the world and available everywhere books are sold!!

If you haven’t snagged your copy of LEGACY yet👉🏿 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705871/l…!

Viking Books

Don't miss tomorrow, November 16, from 4 pm - 6 pm at #ACHIEVEability . Join us for the first-come, first-served turkey giveaway, sign-ups for LIHEAP & ECA, and more! We can't wait to see you here! PA Department of Human Services @phillyenergy Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS Philadelphia Public Health #60thStreetStrong

New pub alert: harms of hospital police are not recognized. In JAMA Network Open, we reveal such harms like patients killed, shot, injured, sexually assaulted, arrested & hospital workers or “collateral damage” shot, injured, or arrested Victor Ray jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

As a physician who devoted many years working in a hospital taking care of acutely injured people, my heart is broken and I’m at a loss for words over what is happening right now in Gaza hospitals and to the medical staff and patients. Hospitals must remain places of healing.

🗣️ Class is in Session 🗣️

Excited to announce that I am launching the “Creatives for Social Change in Medicine” virtual course which aims to teach those in the medical field how to use their creative gifts to advance health equity #Medtwitter

Sign up at adeosinubi.com/cscm

#ICYMI : LDI Senior Fellow @eugenia_south has been named Associate Vice President for Health Justice at Penn Medicine!

Read more here:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

Very proud of this project supporting equity in urban tree canopy in Philadelphia! The Lancet Planetary Health

Thanks to all the Philly organizations, community members, and medical folks who are instrumental to the program.

thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…

omg omg omg
how lucky are we!!

Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS *THE* Associate Vice President for Health Justice Penn Medicine is coming to Sinai EM / @Sinai_Emerg_Med for Grand Rounds!