The Roseman University of Health Sciences College of Medicine is not just up to its knees in wokeness but entirely “covered.” So said founding dean Pedro “Joe” Greer, Jr., MD, during a startlingly blunt podcast interview uploaded last month.
Launched in 2025, Roseman’s medical school wasted little time before embracing the tenets of DEI, as Do No Harm’s previous coverage of the institution made clear.
Until at least August 8 of last year, the medical school’s ASPIRE Program listed as its “one major goal” “increas[ing] the diversity of the physician workforce by exposing and providing learning opportunities for students traditionally underrepresented in medicine.” (That language has since been removed in favor of an anodyne commitment to “increas[ing] the number of students from Nevada entering the physician workforce” generally.)
A “2021–2026 Strategic Plan” available on the medical school’s website until at least August 24 of last year pledged that “[e]quity, inclusion and diversity are critical to all our endeavors at Roseman COM.” (That document, too, has since been taken down.)
Had not Dean Greer been so forthcoming in his recent remarks about the institution’s continuing commitment to DEI, one might take these excisions as evidence of a new focus on merit and depoliticized medical education.
Alas, that does not appear to be the case. As Greer readily acknowledged, no such change of direction has occurred.
To begin with, Greer used his recent podcast appearance to respond to Do No Harm’s 2025 reporting about his institution:
Do No Harm claim[ed] that we, as the newest medical school in America last year, [were] up to our knees in woke. I didn’t respond because they were wrong. We were not up to our knees in woke; we’re covered in woke. And I will continue to push the pursuits of diversity and what is right in fighting injustice, which is what woke means. [3:07]
Later in the same remarks, Greer made clear that his belief in the benefits of doctor-patient “racial concordance” has not been altered by the debunking of that theory:
What we need is diversity in deans. You know, because, you guys, one day [Hispanics] are going to be the majority. Let’s start getting diverse now. Let’s do it the right way. Why? Because we know that Hispanics get better when they’re taken care of by Hispanics. Well, guess what? Same thing happens with the women and with Asians. [6:34]
To that unscientific pronouncement, Greer added, chillingly,
[W]hat we value in medicine has to evolve with the values of society. No longer is it your grades. We need to measure the humanism [sic] of the person. [7:05]
These are frightening words from the founding dean of an American medical school, not only because they indicate an unprofessional refusal to follow the evidence where it leads but because they so plainly reveal a warped set of priorities.
Doctors without “humanism” — perhaps better expressed as empathy or an effective “bedside manner” — do indeed lack an important dispositional characteristic. But doctors who can’t or won’t master medical science will help no one at all.
