Colette Marie Sims Death – Dead | Passed Away – Obituary
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RIP Colette Marie Sims, cultural and medical anthropologist at the University of Arizona and health advocate for under-served communities died recently from COVID-19.
While working in the medical school, Colette was asked to participate in cultural competency training for medical students. She did so with conviction and laid bare the Black experience in America from slavery to modern forms of racial disparity and structural racism, placing emphasis on both the social and structural determinants of health. She also explained why many Blacks mistrust the health care system and feel they need to proactively advocate for good care. Colette helped medical students imagine the kinds of challenges that minority patients face in the real world that result in ill health and reduced ability to be adherent to best practice medical advice, as well as their difficulties in communicating with white healthcare providers.
Colette was passionate about helping students of all ages. While working at the UA, she provided tutoring to athletes, whom she insisted on calling “athlete-scholars.” Many of these students commented in their memories of Colette that the use of that term changed their own perceptions of themselves. In recent years, working with the Tucson Unified School District, Colette prepared children and adolescents for college readiness. True to her perspective on life, Colette considered herself a collaborator in the development of students’ academic performance through learner-centered strategies.
Colette touched many hundreds of lives from the academy to the community. She will be greatly missed by her colleagues, who will remember her for the strong, vibrant, and big-hearted person she was as well as her personal style and her amazing nails. Colette truly walked the walk on her own terms. She is survived by her two children and grandchildren.
TY4 your kind outreach, Kaila. It’s not my story to tell, but may I pass along your message to the family to contact you? A beautiful tribute by Shaq Davis appeared in ADS in Dr. Colette Marie Sims’ memory. She is loved by many and sadly missed.
TY4 your kind outreach, Kaila. It’s not my story to tell, but may I pass along your message to the family to contact you? A beautiful tribute by Shaq Davis appeared in ADS in Dr. Colette Marie Sims’ memory. She is loved by many and sadly missed. https://t.co/MwUjm4pAlp
— ILoveLadybugs (@Sheri_Hill) May 7, 2020
COLETTE MARIE SIMS, a longtime cultural and medical anthropologist at the University of Arizona and health advocate for under-served communities, has died of COVID-19.
COLETTE MARIE SIMS, a longtime cultural and medical anthropologist at the University of Arizona and health advocate for under-served communities, has died of COVID-19.
More via @ShaqDavis1 https://t.co/pFNevtiNUH
— FacesOfCOVID (@FacesOfCOVID) August 4, 2020
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