Lala L Forrest

Biographic Data

ID8306700
NAMELala L Forrest
GIVEN NAMESLala L
FAMILY NAMEForrest
SIGNATUREFORREST L L
AFFILIATIONSQuinnipiac University
ORCID0000-0001-5407-4206
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • An Overview of This Year’s Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor

    Open AccessLala L Forrest, Laura BlytonARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

    Academic Medicine’s call for trainee-authored letters to the editor, which has occurred annually since 2016, has successfully provided a forum for collecting and amplifying trainee perspectives. In the latest call in 2022, trainees shared a transformative moment that occurred during their educational journey and how it shaped their identity as a health professional. In this Commentary, 2 members of the journal’s staff provide a brief retrospectiv…

  • PEARLS (Perspectives on Equity Advancement

    Open AccessSarah R Yoder, Allison B Lonstein et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2022

    PEARLS (Perspectives on Equity Advancement: Research and Learning Symposium) was a student-led, faculty-mentored, year-long initiative culminating in a symposium with three components: (1) “Change Agents”, where faculty leaders presented their research and advances in DEI and the impact on the community; (2) The “15% Better” initiative, which promoted individual commitments to improving DEI in the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac …

  • Student-Led Initiatives and Advocacy in Academic Medicine

    Lala L Forrest, Joseph R GeraghtyARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    Trainees’ value as effective leaders within academic medicine has been increasingly recognized. From their perspective as adult learners who enter medical education from diverse backgrounds, trainees offer significant value to the teaching, learning, and practice of medicine. As such, trainees have developed and led various successful initiatives throughout academic medicine. In this Invited Commentary, 2 medical students with national leadership…

  • Trainees Are Change Agents

    Laura Blyton, Lala L Forrest et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    We [trainees] have inherited a system that breeds complacency and acceptance of health disparities as inevitable. This is a legacy that must end with us. Start today. Start now. The next time someone tells you race is a risk factor, ask “Why?” —Melson et al, “Race as Risk Factor: Always Ask ‘Why?’” 1 The topic of Academic Medicine’s 2021 call for trainee-authored Letters to the Editor was Trainees as Agents of Change in Academic Medicine and the …

  • Courage and Community

    Lala L Forrest, Elizabeth S Karlin et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    Although I had transported patients in the past, I quickly learned that the weight of a deceased person was a different kind of heavy.... The hardest part was the sheer volume, the sea of white and orange bags distinguished only by a tag attached to the outside. But I refused to let them become interchangeable. I read every tag, every name, every age. Before we lifted a body from the gurney to the shelf, I took a brief moment to lay my hand on wh…

  • How Should Medical Schools Foster Equity and Inclusion in Admissions

    Open AccessAdela Valdez, Lala L Forrest et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2021

    This commentary in response to a case considers how merit and features of medical school applicants’ dossiers should be drawn upon in admissions processes to promote equity and inclusion in medicine. It is argued that medical schools should incentivize inclusion by redefining merit in their admissions goals and processes