2024 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leadership Award
The winner of this award has served roles furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice at local, regional, and national levels, including those within graduate medical education, the division, department, with the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Areeba Kara, MD, MS, was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, where she attended medical school at the Aga Khan University. She completed her internal medicine residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine and joined IU Health Methodist Hospital as a hospitalist in 2003. She is an associate professor and currently serves as the associate division chief and director of faculty development for the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at IU.
She enjoys the challenges of clinical hospital medicine. On seeing missed opportunities for asking and answering research questions in hospital medicine, she sought further training in clinical research methods.
Dr. Kara has served roles furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice at local, regional, and national levels, including those within graduate medical education, the division, department, with the Society of Hospital Medicine, the HOMERuN collaborative, and the American College of Physicians. She is also an assistant editor for the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Dr. Kara believes that hospitalists are uniquely positioned to tackle the complex and difficult issues of unconscious bias and health care disparities: “Hospitalists are at the bedside and the boardroom and everywhere in between. Every patient, every conversation, every committee membership, every leadership role, every QI project, every teaching moment, every research project is an opportunity to ask difficult questions and do better. Hundreds of such opportunities each day multiplied by thousands of hospitalists means that we have the power to change the landscape of health care.”
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