His father faced discrimination as a physician. Now, Dr. Wayne J. Riley wants to end another legacy of that era — unequal access to health care.
Dr. Wayne J. Riley talks with medical students at UT Health San Antonio after delivering the keynote speech at the 20th Anniversary Frank Bryant Jr. Memorial Distinguished Lecture.hasn’t forgotten the hard years when African American physicians, including his own father, Dr. Emile Edward Riley, struggled to establish medical practices in the face of discrimination.
During the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Riley said, Black women had the highest rate of pregnancy-related deaths among all ethnic groups. “He wasn’t just about the Black folks on the East Side of San Antonio,” Riley told the audience in the Holly Auditorium at UT Health. “He was for all San Antonians. He is what we get up every morning to do, create more healers like Frank Bryant.”
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