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Insight into the ACR’s Commitment to an Inclusive Committee Composition

Kanika Monga, MD, FACR  |  Issue: October 2024  |  October 9, 2024

Remember, as Randy Pausch said in The Last Lecture, “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”1

If you have any questions or if you would like to provide feedback on how to improve this process, contact the ACR’s Governance team by email at [email protected].

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Kanika Monga, MD, FACR, is a rheumatologist at Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas. She is also an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and Houston Methodist Academic Institute, and adjunct faculty at Texas A&M University School of Engineering Medicine.

Reference

  1. Pausch R, Zaslow J. The Last Lecture. New York: Hyperion; 2008.

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