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New Theory and Experiments on Implicit Race and Gender Bias in Medicine

  • Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
  • Time: 11:00am EDT to 12:00pm EDT

Speaker

Damon Centola, Ph.D.

Damon Centola, Ph.D.
Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Director of the Network Dynamics Group
Senior Fellow
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Dr. Centola is one of the world's leading scholars on social networks and behavior change. His work has received numerous scientific awards, including the Goodman Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Sociological Methodology in 2011; the James Coleman Award for Outstanding Research in Rationality and Society in 2017; and the Harrison White Award for Outstanding Scholarly Book in 2019. He was a developer of the NetLogo agent based modeling environment, and was awarded a U.S. Patent for inventing a method to promote diffusion in online networks. Damon is a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.