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Christian Arbelaez, MD, attending physician in the Emergency Department and fellow of The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Minority Health Policy, was appointed to The Sullivan Alliance to Transform America's Health Professions, a national panel working to create a diverse and better-trained health care workforce.
Arbelaez's drive to ensure quality health care for underserved populations manifests itself in his appointment to The Alliance, as well as his work educating residents and medical students at BWH and multiple community service activities.
“Christian is a rising star in the Department of Emergency Medicine at BWH,” said department chairman Ron Walls, MD. “His dedication to improving access for underserved minorities has already begun to bear fruit.”
For the next three to five years, Arbelaez, 31, will work to implement The Alliance's 62 recommendations to hospitals, medical and business schools and public forums around the country. The Sullivan Alliance encompasses the former Sullivan Commission and an Institute of Medicine panel investigating diversity in health care. The Alliance partners with the Washington, D.C.-based Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.