<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2024/04-16/honoring-a-legacy.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>04/16/2024 02:00:00 PM</pubDate><title>Honoring a Legacy: Dr. Uché Blackstock’s Provocative Examination of Racism in Medicine</title><sub-title/><description>“Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” (Legacy) is a New York Times bestselling book penned by Uché Blackstock, M.D., released in January 2024. Dr. Blackstock, a 2009 alumnus of SUNY Downstate’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the Founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, sheds light in this book on racial disparities in healthcare and collaborates with healthcare institutions to combat systemic racism and promote equitable health outcomes.</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="https://www.downstate.edu/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2024/04-16/_images/legacy-book-image.png" alt="Blackstock"/></image><categories/></item>