While a medical resident at Emory University, Dr. Aubrey J. Grant gave grand rounds on the topic of implicit bias in medicine. Through her role as founder of the Davidson College Tech Impact Fellowship, Dr. Grant's longtime friend Whitney A. White was familiar with research on the power of Virtual Reality to increase empathy and reduce bias. When Dr. Grant shared with Whitney the challenges he was seeing in medicine, she saw an opportunity to leverage Virtual Reality technology as a transformative solution. So in 2018, the initial concept for Equity Commons was born.
After years of development and testing, Equity Commons launched its initial pilot at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in partnership with Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2021. Equity Commons then followed the success of that initial pilot with a commercial launch in 2022. Since then, Equity Commons has expanded to help organizations across myriad industries improve communication, strengthen team cohesion, and advance high quality outcomes — all through the power empathy.
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