This year, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and runners on the Grateful Nation Boston Marathon Team are committed to raising awareness and promoting health equity in our communities...
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This year, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and runners on the Grateful Nation Boston Marathon Team are committed to raising awareness and promoting health equity in our communities. Team members can choose to fundraise for one of the following health disparity programs:
- The Healthy Champions Program at the BIDMC-affiliated Bowdoin Street Health Center, which teaches economically disadvantaged young people about the health and wellness issues that are most important within the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood and the role they can play in creating positive change.
- BIDMC Project to Prevent and Cure Kidney Disease in African Americans
African Americans develop kidney disease at five times the rate of other groups. Members of the BIDMC Division of Nephrology, led by division chief Martin Pollak, M.D., have identified the reason and want to use this information to develop new ways to prevent and cure kidney disease in African Americans. This research may have important implications for the therapeutic management of kidney disease and also the host of other serious, life-threatening conditions to which it is tied, such as heart failure and vascular disease.
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