This chapter profiles Dr. Uché Blackstock, an emergency physician and health equity advocate whose work exposes systemic racism in healthcare (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.; Harvard Medicine Magazine, Uché Blackstock is on a mission to root out racism in medicine. https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/uche-blackstock-mission-root-out-racism-medicine , 2024). Daughter of Dr. Dale Gloria Blackstock, a nephrologist who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1976 and died in 1997, she and her fraternal twin sister, Oni, became the first Black mother-daughter legacies at Harvard Medical School when they graduated in 2005 (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.; Harvard Medicine Magazine, Uché Blackstock is on a mission to root out racism in medicine. https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/uche-blackstock-mission-root-out-racism-medicine , 2024). After completing an emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where she served as Chief Resident, and an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Mount Sinai Morningside (2010), Dr. Blackstock joined NYU School of Medicine as an assistant professor and later became Faculty Director for Recruitment, Retention and Inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.; EMRA, Emergency medicine 45 under 45: Dr. Blackstock. https://www.emra.org/be-involved/awards/45under45/2019/uche-blackstock-45 , 2019). In 2019, she left academia to found Advancing Health Equity, a consulting firm dedicated to partnering with healthcare organizations to dismantle racism in healthcare and close the gap in racial health inequities (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.; Advancing Health Equity, About. https://advancinghealthequity.com/about/ , n.d.). Her January 2020 STAT News op-ed “Why Black Doctors Like Me Are Leaving Faculty Positions in Academic Medical Centers” became a call to arms for many Black physicians (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.; Blackstock, Why Black doctors like me are leaving faculty positions in academic medical centers. STAT News. https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/16/black-doctors-leaving-faculty-positions-academic-medical-centers/ , 2020, January 16). She became a Yahoo! News Medical Contributor in June 2020 and later a regular MSNBC/NBC News medical contributor during COVID-19 (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.). Her memoir “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine” (Viking, 2024) became an instant New York Times bestseller and was named one of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024 and Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.; Blackstock, Legacy: a black physician reckons with racism in medicine. Viking. https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Physician-Reckons-Racism-Medicine/dp/0593491289 , 2024). In 2024, Dr. Blackstock was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in Global Health (Blackstock, Dr. Uché Blackstock [Official website]. https://ucheblackstock.com/ , n.d.; Ducharme, Uché Blackstock. TIME. https://time.com/6967230/dr-uche-blackstock/ , 2024, May 2).