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From left, Arden Bongco, Wanda Smith, Willie Ferrer and Rhonda Cole are addressing multiethnic issues in Pathology’s Core Lab. With diversity at the fore, efforts like these should catch on.

Mixing It Up
A bold initiative fosters diversity across Johns Hopkins Medicine

For Willie Ferrer, supervising more than 40 medical technologists and technicians overnight in the Department of Pathology’s Core Lab demands a touch of diplomacy. The lab’s rich mix of backgrounds—African-American, Filipino, Nigerian, Chinese, Indian and Hispanic among them—means that dilemmas can arise.

Is it OK to speak your native language in the lab? To look someone directly in the eye? To ask someone, when English is your second language, to repeat those complicated directions?

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