Damon Tweedy

Damon Scott Tweedy is an American physician who is an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. In 2015 Tweedy published his memoir, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine.

Damon Scott Tweedy
Tweedy in 2019
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County
Duke University School of Medicine
Yale University
Scientific career
InstitutionsDuke University School of Medicine

Early life and education

Tweedy was born into a socially conservative family.[1] He was an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he played UMBC Retrievers men's basketball.[1][2] Tweedy was a student at the Duke University School of Medicine in the mid-1990s,[1][3] and experienced racism as commonplace in society and medicine.[4] As a medical student, Tweedy was mistaken by a professor for a caretaker.[5] He has said that he was worried that he was a product of affirmative action.[1] In 2000 he graduated from Duke University.[6] After graduating in medicine, Tweedy moved to Yale University, where he studied law.[4]

Research and career

Tweedy was appointed associate professor of psychiatry at the Duke University.[6] He has argued that to address racial inequalities in healthcare, America needs more African American doctors.[7] He attributes the inequity in outcomes to mistrust of African-American people in their majority white doctors, and the mistrust of physicians in their African-American patients.[7] This influences the demographics of patients who take part in clinical studies, which lessens the impact of medical research. He has investigated the history of segregation at Duke University.[8]

Book

In 2015 Tweedy published his memoir, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine, which explores race and its interactions with medicine.[9][10] The book was well received by critics.[11] The British Medical Journal admired "Tweedy's unflinching honesty and fierce introspection."[9] Black Man in a White Coat was selected as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books by Time magazine.[12] It was also recommended reading by Oprah's Book Club[13] and Entertainment Weekly.

Selected publications
  • James A. Blumenthal; Andrew Sherwood; Elizabeth C. D. Gullette; et al. (1 July 2000). "Exercise and weight loss reduce blood pressure in men and women with mild hypertension: effects on cardiovascular, metabolic, and hemodynamic functioning". JAMA Internal Medicine. 160 (13): 1947–1958. doi:10.1001/ARCHINTE.160.13.1947. ISSN 2168-6106. PMID 10888969. Wikidata Q47235163.
  • Anastasia Georgiades; Andrew Sherwood; Elizabeth C. D. Gullette; et al. (1 August 2000). "Effects of exercise and weight loss on mental stress-induced cardiovascular responses in individuals with high blood pressure". Hypertension. 36 (2): 171–176. doi:10.1161/01.HYP.36.2.171. ISSN 0194-911X. PMID 10948073. Wikidata Q47231549.
  • James A Blumenthal; Andrew Sherwood; Elizabeth C D Gullette; Anastasia Georgiades; Damon Tweedy (1 June 2002). "Biobehavioral approaches to the treatment of essential hypertension". Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 70 (3): 569–589. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.70.3.569. ISSN 0022-006X. PMID 12090370. Wikidata Q34713711.

References
  1. Lyall, Sarah (2015-09-13). "Review: In 'Black Man in a White Coat,' a Doctor Navigates Bruising Terrain (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  2. Tweedy, Damon (March 20, 2018). "Now the whole country knows the UMBC I love". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  3. "What It's Like to Be a Black Man in Medical School". Time. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  4. "Damon Tweedy headlines NIEHS Diversity Speaker Series (Environmental Factor, March 2019)". National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  5. says, Aldona Kasper (2016-07-12). "Damon Tweedy discusses race and stigma in medicine". STAT. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  6. "Damon Scott Tweedy, MD | Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences". psychiatry.duke.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  7. Williams, Joseph P. (2018-08-31). "Why America Needs More Black Doctors". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31.
  8. "Professors explore Duke Hospital's history of segregation, 'complicated relationship' with Durham community". The Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  9. by (2017-11-21). "Book Review: Black Man in a White Coat". Medical Humanities. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  10. "Black Man in a White Coat | Damon Tweedy M.D. | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  11. Flack, John. "Review: 'Black Man in a White Coat' by Damon Tweedy". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  12. "Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2015". Time. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  13. Tweedy, Damon; MD. "Black Man in a White Coat". Oprah.com. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
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