Universities take action to make change

Academic institutions are taking action to help bend the curve of racial disparity toward equity in a society at an inflection point of behavioral change.
“Recent events have really empowered people to speak up,” Keith D. Carter, MD, FACS, said in a discussion of race in ophthalmology at the virtual Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
Carter is chair in ophthalmology and professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

“We had an opportunity for our underrepresented students

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