Feedback from Professional Societies and RFI Respondents on the Misuse of Race within Clinical Care

The following press release was published by the U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means on Jan. 12, 2021. It is reproduced in full below.

WASHINGTON, DC--On Sept. 17, 2020, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) announced a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting input from stakeholders in the medical community on the misuse of race within clinical care.

Responses to the RFI are included here:

* American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

* American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)

* American Psychiatric Association (APA)

* American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN)

* American Society of Transplantation (AST)

* Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)

* Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

* Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC)

* Beyond Flexner Alliance (BFA)

* Brown University (Brown)

* California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN)

* Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH)

* Charlene J. (Sharry) Langdale

* City University of New York (CUNY)

* Equity, Research and Innovation Center at Yale University School of Medicine

* Institute for Healing & Justice in Medicine (IHJM)

* Mass General Brigham (MGB)

* Phyllis Chestang, MBA, PhD

* Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)

The Committee’s RFI followed a series of letters that Chairman Neal wrote to professional societies on Sept. 3, 2020, and throughout the fall of 2020, calling on the organizations to partner with the Ways and Means Committee in addressing the longstanding racial inequities in our society and requesting their perspectives on a series of questions related to clinical tools used in their area of unique medical expertise.

Responses to the Chairman’s letters are included here:

* Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

* American College of Cardiology (ACC)

* American Heart Association (AHA)

* American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

* American Medical Association (AMA)

* American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

* American Thoracic Society (ATS)

* The Endocrine Society (ES)

* Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)

* United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)

* American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)