In the AMA's October 29, 2020, Prioritizing Equity panel, health care leaders held a critical conversation on approaches to dismantling race-based medicine across clinical practice, education and research. Panel: • Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, FASN, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, director of health equity, anti-racism and community engagement • Rohan Khazanchi, BA, MD/MPH candidate, medical student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center & University of Minnesota School of Public Health; member of the AMA Council on Medical Education and the AMA Medical Student Section’s Region 2 delegation chair • Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, co-founder, EqualHealth; assistant professor, Harvard Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow • Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd, emergency medicine physician, writer, educator and advocate in New Haven, Connecticut • Darshali Vyas, MD, second-year resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, AMA chief health equity officer and vice president ► Transcript: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/prioritizing-equity-video-series-examining-race-based-medicine 0:00 Introduction 01:19 Panel Introduction 03:40 Michelle Morse, MD, MPH (Introduction) 05:06 Darshali Vyas, MD (Introduction) 05:43 Rohan Khazanchi, BA, MD/MPH candidate (Introduction) 06:30 Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, FASN (Introduction) 07:18 Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd (Introduction) 09:06 Race-based algorithms 14:09 Race, ancestry, and biological traits 16:21 Racial essentialism 19:35 Recruiting diverse populations for large epidemiological population health studies 21:20 Ending scientific racism 24:55 What is Critical Race Theory? 26:44 The harm caused by keeping race corrections, race adjustments in our algorithms 29:45 How the eGFR race correction impacts black individuals with chronic kidney disease 34:50 Examining research through the critical lens of justice and evidence 38:56 Removing race from clinical calculators like the VBAC tool 42:05 How institutions can fix these issues, inequities, and injustices 47:38 Organized medicine and race-based medicine 50:32 The importance of education and communication 55:04 Systematic review of race and clinical tools ► The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct #HealthEquity