NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH DAY
EDI PANEL:
Media, Marginalization & the Mind
Eden Hennessey, PhD
Eden Hennessey (she/her) is a Social Psychologist who researches and mobilizes knowledge related to diversity promotion and discrimination reduction. Dr. Hennessey advocates for equity and inclusion on university campuses and combines arts with data to impact world-wide audiences. She is deeply committed to her work as the Manager of the Centre for Student Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (CSEDI) at Wilfrid Laurier University and as the Research and Programs Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science (WinS).
Oliver Rollins, PhD
Oliver Rollins is an assistant professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He uses qualitative sociological methods to explore how racial identity, racialized discourses, and systemic practices of social difference influence, engage with, and are affected by, the making and use of neuroscientific technologies and knowledges. His current project examines the neuroscience of implicit bias, chiefly the challenges, consequences, and promises of operationalizing racial prejudice and identity as neurobiological processes. Moreover, Rollins is also developing a new project on the politics of social justice and (neuro)science, which aims to elucidate, and speculate, the socio-political dilemmas, ethical vulnerabilities, anti-racist potentials for contemporary neuroscientific practices. Rollins teaching courses on science, technology, and society; theories of race/racisms, social inequities and health, and bioethics. Rollins received his Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Talia Swartz, MD, PhD
Dr. Talia Swartz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Education based out of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, USA.. Her clinical training is in Infectious Diseases with a specific interest in care for people with HIV, and her basic science interest is in the biology that underlies chronic HIV infection and severe COVID-19.
Dr. Swartz is Co-Director of the MD/PhD Program and Associate Dean for MD/PhD Education. She has been deeply committed to supporting the training of physician scientists through recruitment and support of diverse trainees who are navigating dual training in medicine and biomedical science. She is involved in innovative curricular development, outreach, and student support, both at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and through the AAMC GREAT MD/PhD Section Communications Committee where she has been developing resources to make physician scientist training available to a more diverse group of future trainees.