CERM Detroit

CERM Detroit

Purpose and Program

Under the theme “Beyond the algorithm,” the summit will examine who shapes the code, who bears the consequences, and who leads change. It will connect the legacy of race-based clinical assumptions with contemporary AI systems and explore approaches to identifying bias, preventing harm, and building a scientifically just, community-accountable future. The audience includes healthcare professionals, researchers, technology experts, institutional leaders, and community advocates.

Keynote speaker Jameila “Meme” Styles will be joined by panelists Dr. Seun Ross, Dr. Judy Wawira Gichoya, Lori Perine, and Lana James. Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, founder and co-chair of CERM-D and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, will moderate the conversation. Dr. Latonya Riddle-Jones, Department of Internal Medicine Vice Chair of Community Outreach and co-chair of CERM-D, serves on the summit planning committee.

Alignment with departmental and institutional priorities

WSU School of Medicine. It supports the mission’s emphasis on clinical excellence, community investment, inclusion, and innovative technology, and the vision of equitable healthcare through community partnerships. It directly connects to the 2023–2030 Strategic Plan’s pillars of transformative education, community research, urban health and social accountability, and mission-aligned clinical excellence. The summit advances the department internal medicine’s education, research, patient care, and service mission by preparing faculty and trainees to scrutinize clinical tools, strengthening community outreach, and encouraging collaboration across academic and clinical partners. The focus on community accountability and bias prevention advances WSU’s commitment to urban health and social welfare and its strategic vision of integrated whole-person care with partnerships addressing social drivers of health.

Leadership support and next steps

We request leadership assistance in circulating the invitation, encouraging faculty and trainee attendance, and identifying representatives to connect summit insights with education, patient safety, research, and AI governance. Afterward, we propose sharing key themes and identifying feasible collaborations through CERM-D’s action circles.

Convening organization: CERM-Detroit | detroiterbm.org

CERM-D was formerly the Detroit End Race-Based Medicine Taskforce; the website retains the former name.

Alignment sources: intmed.med.wayne.edu; med.wayne.edu/pdfs/strategic-plan-final-revised.pdf; waynehealthcares.org/about-wayne-health; dmc.org/about.