Etoi Garrison is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She will proudly tell you that she was born 3 months premature at Cook County Hospital, the largest public hospital serving African- American/Hispanic and immigrant residents in Chicago. She attended the University of Chicago and majored in biology. She attended medical school and obtained an MD, Ph.D. at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She completed her residency in OB/Gyn at the University of Chicago and completed a Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2006. Her clinical interests focus on the management of women with gestational and pregestational diabetes. She directs the outpatient diabetes clinics at the Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health and is the physician leader for several protocols designed to improve the inpatient management of women with diabetes in pregnancy at VUMC. She was asked to serve as Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Department of OB/Gyn in 2021. Dr Garrison is a talented educator who is passionate about resident education, faculty education, and health equity. In 2021, she was elected to the Academy for Excellence in Education by the Vanderbilt University Medical School, one of only six people in the history of the Department of OB/Gyn to do so. Dr Garrison is also one of only four faculty at VUMC who was elected to serve as a national oral board examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 2021, Dr Garrison received a Maternal Mortality prevention grant from the State of TN to develop a virtual unconscious bias train-the-trainer curriculum. She is proud to share her work.