On May 7, 2025, Duke Pathology Professor Andrea Deyrup, MD, PhD and Joseph L. Graves, Jr., PhD, a professor of evolutionary biology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T State) in Greensboro, presented a Grand Rounds talk to the Mayo Clinic Department of Internal Medicine. The presentation was a variation of their "(Nearly) Everything You Learned About Race in Medical School Was Wrong” talk.
They followed the presentation with a two-hour workshop titled “Getting Race Right: Educating Tomorrow’s Healthcare Workers,” which was a part of the Mayo Clinic Inspiring Discovery, Advocacy, and Restorative Engagement (I-DARE) Curriculum.
On May 27th, they repeated the presentation remotely to the Royal College of Pathologists in the United Kingdom ̶ a professional membership organization with charitable status concerned with all matters relating to the science and practice of pathology. It was the first time they presented their research of the racialization of disease in medicine in the United Kingdom. The talk was followed by a question-and-answer session. This was their second international presentation, following a session with Unity Health of Toronto in 2022.
Deyrup is a nationally-renowned speaker on the topic of race in medicine. A large focus of her work has been to examine the questionable science that supports race-based associations in medical texts and board exams. After finding that the data were often inaccurate and misinterpreted, she has been building connections through presentations and a popular video series to end racialized medicine.
She was interviewed in March 2024 by National Public Radio for their Code Switch podcast episode, “How Race & Science Show up at the Doctor’s Office,” which they re-aired on May 25, 2025 . Listen to the 35-minute episode here.