Mohan Zalake, Eric Swirsky, and Blessings Chisunkha co-author paper on incorporating Black Patients’ Lived Experiences in Virtual Patients for Racial Bias Mitigation Training
Dr. Mohan Zalake, Eric Swirsky, and Blessings Chisunkha, from the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, published a paper titled “My doctor didn't give me half of that privilege”: Incorporating Black Patients’ Lived Experiences in Virtual Patients for Racial Bias Mitigation Training in the CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The project was funded by an AHS Interdisciplinary pilot grant and was in collaboration with Dr. Monique Jindal from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.