Learning Objectives

1. Describe the recent efforts to remove race from certain diagnostic tests and clinical algorithms (e.g. eGFR, PFTs).

2. Discuss the roles played by scientific and political considerations in those decisions.

3. Recognize the limits of the racial categories that are now used in medical research and practice.

David S. Jones, MD, PhD
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University

In-Person and Virtual attendance options are available.