Welcome to the Montenegro Lab!

The Montenegro Lab focuses on assessing for and addressing variability in clinical decision-making and medical education, aiming to develop sustainable strategies that support fairness, accuracy, and accountability in healthcare delivery.



Current Research/Scholarship Projects

BRIM-Peds+

The overall goal of BRIM-Pediatrics+ is to develop, implement, and study an effective bias literacy curriculum intervention for the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Washington School of Medicine. This intervention aims to address unfair or problematic language in the form of racism, in the field of pediatrics, at the personal, interpersonal, and institutional level.

BRICC

The BRICC program takes a multi-disciplinary approach to systematically evaluate and identify potential unfair or problematic language in medical education curricula content. BRICC aims to 1) preemptively identify social and structural determinants of health (SSDOH) that should be included in medical curricula content and 2) use computer science technology (text extraction and natural language processing methods) to more efficiently and accurately examine large corpuses of data to reduce problematic content in medical education materials via machine learning methods.

Highlighted Publications

  1. Anderson N, Lett E, Asabor EN, Hernandez AL, Nguemeni Tiako MJ, Johnson C, Montenegro RE, Rizzo TM, Latimore D, Nunez-Smith M, Boatright D. The Association of Microaggressions with Depressive Symptoms and Institutional Satisfaction Among a National Cohort of Medical Students. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Feb;37(2):298-307. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8811096
  2. Dori -Hacohen S, Montenegro R, Murai F, Hale SA, Sung K, Blain M, Edwards-Johnson J. Fairness via AI. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2109.02202
  3. Overland MK, Zumsteg JM, Lindo EG, Sholas MG, Montenegro RE, Campelia GD, Mukherjee D. Microaggressions in Clinical Training and Practice. PM R. 2019 Sep;11(9):1004-1012. PMID: 31368663
  4. Montenegro RE, Dori-Hacohen G. Morality in sugar talk: Presenting blood glucose levels in routine diabetes medical visits. Soc Sci Med. 2020; 253:112925.
  5. Montenegro RE. My Name Is Not “Interpreter.” JAMA. 2020;323(17):1700-1701.
  6. Montenegro R. Microaggressions During Medical Training—Reply. JAMA. 2016;316(10):1114-1114.

View a full list of Dr. Montenegro’s publications on PubMed.

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Contact Us

Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care

For questions or inquiries,
email: [email protected]
call: 206-884-8355.

Physical Address

1900 Ninth Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101

Mailing Address

M/S JMB-6
PO Box 5371
Seattle, WA 98145-5005