Mission and public details
WHILE AFRICAN AMERICAN and LATINX INDIVIDUALS REPRESENT 13% and 18% of THE U. S. POPULATION RESPECTIVELY, THEY ARE DRAMATICALLY UNDER-REPRESENTED AS PROVIDERS WITHIN THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN GENERAL, and GASTROENTEROLOGY IN PARTICULAR. WITH ONLY 4% of PRACTICING GASTROENTEROLOGISTS IDENTIFYING AS AFRICAN AMERICAN and ONLY 5% IDENTIFYING AS LATINX, IN THE ABSENCE of MEANINGFUL CHANGE, THE FIELD of GASTROENTEROLOGY WILL STRUGGLE to PROVIDE EFFECTIVE, EQUITABLE, and CULTURALLY CONSCIOUS CARE to A GROWING POPULATION IN NEED of IT. to ADDRESS THIS CRITICAL DEFICIT IN THE DIVERSITY of PROVIDERS, GASTROCARES SEEKS to INSPIRE MOTIVATED INDIVIDUALS to PURSUE CAREERS IN MEDICINE THROUGH EARLY EXPOSUR…
- Organization
- GASTROCARES INC
- EIN
- 85-3329208
- Address
- 5550 FRIENDSHIP BLVD SUITE T-90, CHEVY CHASE, MD, 20815-7313
- County
- Montgomery
- Tax category
- Digestive Diseases & Disorders Research
- NTEE classification
- H70
- Organization website
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