CCGS/CGS faculty member Giselle Corbie-Smith was invited as a guest on the popular NPR radio show in September to discuss how her family’s cultural background and her experiences as a physician shaped her identity and research focus. Giselle and host Frank Stasio traced her steps from growing up in Brooklyn to her position as Chief Medical Resident at Yale where she first encountered the racial disparities in health care that would become the central theme of her research. Giselle’s role as Director of the Program on Health Disparities at the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services, as an investigator in the Center for Genomics and Society, and more recently, Director of the Community Engagement Core for the recently awarded CTSA, provide many avenues for her expertise in improving collaboration and communication with minority serving institutions and minority participation in research. In recognition of her achievements as an outstanding junior faculty member, she was recently awarded the Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine.
G. Corbie-Smith: The State of Things Interview