Ensuring That an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Pledge Promotes Meaningful Change: Words and Actions.

Neurology

From the Department of Neurology (I.M.E.), University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington; and Department of Neurology (A.R.S.), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.

Published: October 2021

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