Patients R Waiting

Did you catch us on abc27 News 📺!?
Our very own Dr. Sharee Livingston and Karisa Augustine, joined Valerie Pritchett for Hot Topic Tuesday to talk about the 10th Annual Diversity in Medicine Conference on Saturday, September 26th Franklin & Marshall College and why creating opportunities for the next, diverse generation of healthcare professionals matters.

Huge thank you to Valerie and the entire abc27 News team for helping us spread the word!

🔗Register online at www.patientsrwaiting.com/dim

https://www.abc27.com/video/hot-topic-tuesday-diversity-in-medicine/12140467/

Hot Topic Tuesday: Diversity in Medicine Hot Topic Tuesday: Diversity in Medicine

Medical Minute ⏰
Every Thursday 6:00–7:00 PM EST on Zoom

Community members, Doulas, healthcare professionals, students, and anyone interested in health are invited to join us for conversations about current, real-world health topics. Medical Minute is an educational discussion and is not intended to provide medical advice.

Bring your questions. Share your experiences. Learn from healthcare professionals, stay informed, and gain information you can share with your family and care community.

Thursday, September 3
Measles: Protect Yourself, Protect Others
🔗 Join the conversation at https://bit.ly/DDI-MedMin

We kicked off the summer sharing a meal to welcome our 2026 cohort of our UPenn Summer Research in Women’s Health Program to Philadelphia with as they begin eight weeks of research, mentorship, and professional development.💪🏾

Our PRW team, Program Alumni—Joseph (Incoming MS1 UPenn Perelman School of Medicine) and Stacey (Incoming MS1 Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University, Dr. Abike James, and Program Coordinator Camilla Augustus (MS2, UPenn Perelman School of Medicine) had the opportunity to connect with scholars before the start of their summer experience.

Congrats and welcome to the PRW community! 🫂

Last week, our team attended the 154th Lancaster Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner to celebrate and support our very own Dr. Sharee Livingston as she received the ATHENA Award 🏆 recognizing her leadership, advocacy, and unwavering commitment to decreasing health disparities in our community! 📸: Brian Nguyen

We are still on a high from our 6th Annual Diversifying Doulas Initiative Community Celebration kicking off last month💜

From meaningful conversations and our fireside chat to free family activities, food, health resources, and moments of joy, it was powerful to see our community come together to celebrate the impact of training over 100 doulas of color serving Lancaster and surrounding counties.

Thank you to our sponsors Highmark Wholecare, Gateway Health, everyone who showed up, supported, volunteered, tabled, danced, connected, and poured into this movement with us over the past 6 years. Black Maternal Health Week was over in April, but we are committed to the work year around!

We couldn’t be more proud 🥹 of these doctors. The journey to the bedside is long and arduous. Patients are truly waiting for YOU!!! We belong in EVERY room, EVERY field, EVERY specialty.

Take a moment to celebrate these wonderful doctors who are changing the world 🌍 through their existence and persistence in medicine.

Our mission at Patients R Waiting, Inc is to eliminate health disparities by increasing diversity and medicine. We have three areas of focus:
Increasing the pipeline of minority clinicians
Making the pipeline less leaky
Supporting minority clinicians in practice

it takes a decade to make a doctor and support is needed far beyond one program or one course or one shadowing experience. Doubt creeps in. Future plans are questioned. Medical education is difficult. It takes a stubborn and relentless self-confidence to persist and sometimes students need to be reminded of who they are along the way.

Thank you for leaning on us for support along the way. We are so proud of you!!!!