PCOM South Georgia’s public services librarian, Katresa Gardner attended the Georgia Department of Public Health’s South Health District second annual Health Equity Summit on March 11, at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. During the summit, Gardner presented on the lack of representation of skin of color in medical education and on her creation of the “Skin of Color” resource guide, which provides resources that include images of patients with skin of color in order to increase representation and improve treatment of patients.
Katresa Gardner (left), public services librarian, and Stacie Fairley (right), director of interprofessional education and associate professor of microbiology and immunology, stand in front of their poster “Do You See Me? The Lack of Representation of Diverse Skin Tones in Medical Education”.