In honor of Black History Month this February, the UCR SOM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion invites you to join us for a lecture by Dr. Edwin Kendrick. Dr. Kendrick is a vascular surgeon, President of SANO Healthcare, and founder of California Vein Vascular and Diagnostics and SANO Vein and Vascular. Dr. Kendrick is passionate about delivering exceptional vascular care, based on compassion and understanding of the complexities of each individual patient, and in accordance with current standards of evidence-based medical practice. As a founder of start-ups, including healthcare technology company SANO Healthcare, Dr. Kendrick has remained passionate about integrative technology uses to impact populations of people, while maximizing care through limited costs. It is his current mission to contribute to the transformation of healthcare, while improving care access, care delivery, and health equities.