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Celebrate Resilience
You're invited to the 2025 Aspiring Black Physicians' Conference: Celebrate Resilience on February 22, 2025!
Join Imani Clinic, UCD’s Health Professions Advising (HPA), and Kaiser Permanente for an inspiring and empowering event aimed at catalyzing the success of Black students pursuing careers in healthcare.
Our third annual Aspiring Black Physicians Conference will bring together accomplished Black medical professionals and medical students to share their expertise, experiences, and invaluable insights into navigating the journey toward a successful healthcare career. From engaging panel discussions to meeting our keynote speaker, attendees will have opportunities to network, ask questions about admissions and career goals, and meet other aspiring physicians from their communities.
This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Lisa Ann Merritt, M.D., a general physiatrist of 33 years specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the UC Davis Medical Center.
Please join us at the UC Davis Medical School Campus on February 22nd, 2025 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. This event is open to all university and community college students. Students from UC Davis are eligible for free transportation from the Davis city area.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jones
Dr. Kermit Jones is a board-certified internal medicine physician, U.S. Navy Veteran, and lawyer who practices in Northern California. He grew up in a small family farm in South Haven, Michigan and spent high school summers working in the family business. He graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a B.S. in Chemistry and Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering before attending Duke Medical and Law Schools. He joined the U.S. Navy after 9/11 and served with a U.S. Marine Corps Casualty Evacuation Squadron in Iraq in 2007 and 2008. Dr. Jones served as a White House Fellow in the Obama Administration from 2012-2013 and has worked for several law firms, hospital systems and Federally Qualified Health Care Centers.Kermit ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm cycle in California’s 3rd Congressional District, where he focused on healthcare, education and veterans’ issues. He currently works as a medical director at Partnership Health Plan. He is married with two children and speaks Urdu and Arabic.
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