Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of Presenters

SPEAKERS

Bita Amani, Ph.D., M.H.S., is a social epidemiologist whose teaching and research focus on the synergies and tensions between community health, racism, politics, and power. Her work investigates how social disinvestment and state-sanctioned violence result in public health crisis. She is focused on solutions that strengthen our existing community health infrastructure and explores alternative models of health such as the Cuban Health System. She is an associate professor at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in the Department of Urban Public Health, and lead co-chair of the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) CDU COVID-19 Racism and Equity Task Force housed in the UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health. She is co-founder and co-director of CDU’s Black Maternal Health Center of Excellence.

Gilda A. Barabino, Ph.D., became the second president of Olin College of Engineering, and professor of biomedical and chemical engineering, on July 1, 2020. Previously she served as dean of the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY). She also served as Daniel and Frances Berg Professor, with appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, as well as the City University of New York School of Medicine. A biomedical engineer trained in chemical engineering, with broad interest in global health, systems, and

interdisciplinary engineering education, Dr. Barabino is a noted investigator in the areas of sickle cell disease and cellular and tissue engineering. She is an internationally recognized thought leader and highly sought speaker and consultant on race/ethnicity and gender in science and engineering, with particular focus on creating cultures and climates that support a sense of belonging. She has led a number of initiatives in these areas, including serving as the founder and executive director of the National Institute for Faculty Equity.

Before joining CCNY, she served as associate chair for graduate studies and professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She also served as Georgia Tech’s inaugural vice provost for academic diversity. Prior to that, she spent 18 years at Northeastern University, rising to the rank of full professor of chemical engineering and serving as vice provost for undergraduate education.

Dr. Barabino is an active member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine and serves on numerous committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; the Health and Medicine Division Committee; and the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, which she chairs. Dr. Barabino also serves as a member of the National Institutes of Health’s National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering; National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Engineering; the congressionally mandated Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy. Dr. Barabino also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. Her many honors include the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award for Service to Society (2019); the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (2018); the Pierre Galetti Award (2017); the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s highest honor; and an honorary degree from Xavier University of Louisiana (2016).

Dr. Barabino is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Biomedical Engineering Society. She sits on the board of trustees for VentureWell, Associated Universities, Inc., New York Hall of Science and Xavier Univer-

sity of Louisiana. Dr. Barabino earned her B.S. degree in chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Rice University.

Christopher Blaszczak-Boxe, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of environmental science and chemistry at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Department of Physical Environmental and Computer Sciences. Prior to joining CUNY, Dr. Boxe attained a B.S. in chemistry (and math minor) from Morehouse College, an M.S. in planetary science and environmental science and engineering (ESE), respectively, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and completed his Ph.D. in ESE at Caltech. Thereafter, he was a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow for 2 years and completed his postdoctoral matriculation as a Caltech/JPL postdoctoral fellow. He then continued his professional matriculation at NASA-JPL as a research scientist in the Earth and Space Science Division.

His research encompasses indoor/outdoor air/water/soil quality analyses and planetary numerical modeling. Specifically, his research foci entail using 0-D, 1-D, 3-D, and regional models to assess the evolution of planets on various timescales. He uses these modeling tools to examine the two-way interaction between chemistry, aerosols, meteorology, and radiation in the Earth’s planetary atmospheres. For other planetary bodies within the solar system, he uses analogous numerical-modeling platforms, constrained by in situ and spacecraft data, to quantify physical and chemical processes within respective planetary atmospheres and to further develop a quantifiable basis for limits of life detection on other planets. Dr. Boxe also participates in laboratory and field experiments to better understand the impact of indoor/outdoor environments on human health. He is extensively involved with educational/professional initiatives to engage/steer K–18, undergraduate, and graduate students toward STEM-related disciplines and careers.

Cedric M. Bright, M.D., is a physician and patient advocate, the interim vice dean and the associate dean for admissions, and professor of internal medicine at the Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina. Previously, he served as the associate dean of inclusive excellence, the director of the Office Special Programs, and an associate professor of medicine in the Department of Medical Education at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. He served as the 112th president of the National Medical Association from 2011 to 2012 during which time he advocated in the White House for health equity, increased diversity in

clinical trials, and increasing the pipeline of students of color into health careers. He was previously an associate clinical professor of internal medicine and community and family medicine at Duke University and a staff physician at the VA Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He started his career as a clinical instructor at Brown University and as the site director of the Notre Dame Ambulatory Center.

Dr. Bright has served as a mentor for premedical and medical students and was featured in a YouTube video developed by Diverse Medicine Inc., entitled “Black Male in a White Coat.” He was featured in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) publication Altering the Course: Black Males in Medicine (2015). He has spoken at the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust on topics related to veterans’ health, disparities within the VA system, and how to strengthen the pipeline of Black males. In 2019, Dr. Bright was inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece, the highest honor bestowed to UNC Alumni. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha at UNC as an alumnus and delivered the 2020 commencement keynote for the 2020 class at UNC School of Medicine. He serves on the Roundtable on Black Men and Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has presented numerous grand rounds on the impact of COVID-19 on the Black community.

Dr. Bright has been a fellow of the American College of Physicians since 2012 and serves as a board member for the National Medical Fellowships Inc., the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute, the American Medical Association Foundation, and Diverse Medicine Inc. He served as the chair for the Boys and Girls Club of Durham and Orange Counties and the Lincoln Community Health Center. He is a member of Sigma Pi Phi and the Omega Psi Phi fraternities. He is a dedicated clinician, community servant, leader, husband, and father, as well as a mentor to many.

Selena McCoy Carpenter, M.Ed., is a senior program manager in the Office of Health Equity and the Wilkins Health Equity and Engagement Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Within the Office of Health Equity, she coordinates several of the antiracism work streams, including antiracism training and VUMC’s Racial Equity Planning Committee. She also coordinates participant partner engagement with the All of Us Research Program, a National Institutes of Health–funded longitudinal cohort study to advance the science of precision medicine. Prior to her role at Vanderbilt, Ms. Carpenter served as the country director of Mennonite Central Committee’s work in Kenya, East Africa.

Kevin Cokley, Ph.D., conducts research broadly categorized in the area of African American psychology, with a focus on racial and ethnic identity development, academic motivation, and academic achievement. A theme of much of his research is understanding the psychological and environmental factors that affect African American student achievement. Dr. Cokley’s research and scholarship have led him to challenge the notion that African American students are anti-intellectual, and to critically reexamine the effect of racial and ethnic identity and gender on academic achievement. Recently, Dr. Cokley has started exploring the impostor phenomenon and its relationship to mental health and academic outcomes among ethnic minority students.

Dr. Cokley’s publications have appeared in professional journals, including the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the Journal of Black Psychology, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Individual Differences and Personality, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and the Harvard Educational Review.

Dr. Cokley has a joint appointment in the College of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and the College of Liberal Arts’ Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. He is the past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology and the director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis. He has written several op-eds in major media outlets, including the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express, The American Prospect, The Huffington Post, The Conversation, and The Hill on topics such as Blacks’ rational mistrust of police, police shootings of Blacks, the aftermath of Ferguson, the use of school vouchers, racial disparities in school discipline, and Black students graduation rates.

George Daley, M.D., Ph.D., is dean and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology. Prior to becoming dean, he was the director of the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Daley received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard (1982); a Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1989), working with Nobel laureate David Baltimore; and his M.D., summa cum laude, from Harvard Medical School (1991). He pursued clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served as chief resident

(1994–1995), and a clinical fellowship in hematology/oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. He remains a staff member in pediatric hematology/oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital. His research uses mouse and human disease models to study cancer and blood disorders.

Dr. Daley has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, the American Pediatric Societies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was an inaugural winner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award (2004) and has won the E. Donnall Thomas Prize of the American Society of Hematology. He was a founding executive committee member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, served as president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2007–2008), and anchored the special task forces that produced the society’s guidelines for stem cell research and clinical translation (2006, 2008, 2016). He was on the organizing committee for both the 2015 and 2018 International Summits on Human Genome Editing and has advocated publicly for responsible international guidelines for attempts at germline genome editing.

Michellene Davis, Esq., assumed the role of president and chief executive officer of National Medical Fellowships, Inc. (NMF) in May of 2021. Founded in 1946, NMF was one of America’s first diversity organizations and remains the only national organization advancing health equity at the intersection of wealth and health. It provides scholarships to Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) medical and health professions students underrepresented in medicine to ensure equity of access to culturally competent, high-quality health care. NMF also increases the number of BIPOC clinician leaders to diversify clinical trials.

Ms. Davis is named among Modern Healthcare magazine’s Top 25 Most Influential Minority Leaders in Healthcare and Becker’s Hospital Review’s Top 50 African Americans to Know in Healthcare. The National Association of Health Services Executives awarded her their 2021 Senior Health Care Executive Award. Ms. Davis most recently served as executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer at RWJBarnabas Health, the largest academic medical center system in New Jersey and one of the largest in the nation. She founded Social Impact and Community Investment, an equity-centered, policy-led community health practice addressing the social and political determinants of health. She was the first African American in

state history to serve as chief policy counsel to former New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine, the first African American and only the second women to serve as New Jersey state treasurer. She was the youngest person to serve as CEO of the New Jersey Lottery and also served as a senior policy advisor in the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.

Ms. Davis co-authored Changing Missions, Changing Lives: How a Change Agent Can Turn the Ship and Create Impact, published by Forbes-Books in 2020, which provides a blueprint for those committed to leading systems change within organizations. She began her legal career as a trial litigator, is an honors graduate of Seton Hall University, and holds a J.D. from Seton Hall School of Law. She holds Executive Education Certificates in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Harvard Business School and in Social Impact Strategy from the Wharton School of Business.

Jennifer Dias is a rising third-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She leads efforts on implementing antiracist initiatives, cultivating community, and providing care to underserved populations in her medical school. She currently serves as a co-investigator and is dedicating a scholarly year to design, implement, and manage a project funded by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, ART in Med Ed, which focuses largely on developing institutional capacity for addressing racism in medical education. During her preclinical years, she served in a range of leadership positions and her work in partnership with leaders at Mount Sinai has been recognized by Good Morning America, among other awards and mentions.

Before medical school, Ms. Dias earned her B.A. from Colgate University in 2016, where she majored in biology and Spanish, and ran Division I Varsity Track and Field. Between college and medical school, she worked on developing web-based interventions for women with pregnancy complications at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Currently, she is interested in mentoring students from underserved backgrounds, becoming a transformational physician-leader, and health care innovation. She enjoys singing in her free time.

Christopher Emdin, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also serves as director of the Science Education program and associate director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. He is an alumni fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University and served as STEAM ambassador for the U.S. Department of State and

Minorities in Energy Initiative ambassador for the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Emdin is a social critic, public intellectual, and science advocate whose commentary on issues of race, culture, inequality, and education have appeared in dozens of influential periodicals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Dr. Emdin holds a Ph.D in urban education with a concentration in mathematics, science, and technology; master’s degrees in both natural sciences and education administration, and bachelor’s degrees in physical anthropology, biology, and chemistry. He is the creator of the #HipHopEd social media movement, and a much sought-after public speaker on a number of topics that include hip-hop education, STEM education, politics, race, class, diversity, and youth empowerment. He is also an advisor to numerous international organizations, school districts, and schools. He is the author of the award winning book Urban Science Education for the Hip-hop Generation (2010) and the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Ya’ll Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (2016).

Gabriel Felix, M.D., is a physician completing adult psychiatry training at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA)/Harvard Medical School (HMS). He received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. While in medical school, he held multiple positions of leadership at local and national levels, including serving as the 55th national president for the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) and as an officer on the Board of Trustees of the National Medical Association (NMA). His nonclinical skill set includes event planning, developing programmatic agendas, strategic planning, and public speaking. He is an active member in several professional organizations, including the NMA, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Black Psychiatrists of America (BPA), among others. He is currently a Public Psychiatry Fellow for the American Psychiatric Association and serves as the postgraduate physician trustee for the National Medical Association. He continues his involvement in the SNMA as a mentor for premedical and medical students.

Helene Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., has been president and CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation’s oldest and largest community foundations, since October 2017. Under her leadership, the Trust has adopted a new strategic focus on closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap

in the Chicago region. For almost a decade, she was president and CEO of CARE, a leading international humanitarian organization. An expert on global development and humanitarian and health issues, Dr. Gayle spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working primarily on HIV/AIDS. She worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, directing programs on HIV/AIDS and other global health issues. She also launched the McKinsey Social Initiative (now McKinsey.org), a nonprofit that builds partnerships for social impact. Dr. Gayle serves on public company and nonprofit boards, including the Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Brookings Institution, Center for Strategic and International Studies, New America, ONE Campaign, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Economic Club of Chicago. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Public Health Association, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Medical Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Named one of Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women” and one of NonProfit Times’ “Power and Influence Top 50,” she has authored numerous articles on global and domestic public health issues, poverty alleviation, gender equality, and social justice.

Dr. Gayle was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She earned a B.A. in psychology at Barnard College, an M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.P.H. at Johns Hopkins University. She has received 18 honorary degrees and holds faculty appointments at the University of Washington and Emory University.

Evelynn M. Hammonds, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She was the first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity at Harvard (2005–2008). From 2008 to 2013, she served as dean of Harvard College. She holds honorary degrees from Spelman College and Bates College. Prof. Hammonds is the director of the Project on Race and Gender in Science and Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. She earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University, an S.M. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a B.E.E. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in physics from Spelman College. In 2010 she was appointed to President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and in 2014 to the President’s Commission on Excellence in Higher Education for African Americans. She has published articles on the history of disease, race, and science; African American feminism;

African American women and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS; and analyses of gender and race in science and medicine. Prof. Hammonds’ current research focuses on diversity in STEM fields; the intersection of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race in the United States; and genetics and society. She served two terms on the Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), the congressionally mandated oversight committee of the National Science Foundation (NSF). She was appointed to the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine of the National Academies in 2017. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.

MaCalus V. Hogan, M.D., M.B.A., is the vice chair of education and residency program director in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). He is a professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bioengineering, and Katz Graduate School of Business. He completed medical school at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He went on to complete his orthopedic surgery residency training at the University of Virginia Health System, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, in Charlottesville, Virginia. This was followed by a foot and ankle fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Following the completion of his training in 2013, Dr. Hogan joined UPMC. He completed his Executive M.B.A. in health care at the University of Pittsburgh Katz School of Business in 2018.

Dr. Hogan has extensive experience in the realm of health-care administration, policy, and quality of care delivery, currently serving as the medical director for outcomes and registries for the UPMC Donald F. Wolff, Jr. Center for Quality, Safety, and Innovation. Dr. Hogan oversees the UPMC Orthopaedic Service Line Steering Committee and serves on the Executive Committee for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Recently appointed as the senior medical director for orthopaedic and musculoskeletal care services for the UPMC Health Plan, he has been instrumental in the development of the Centers of Excellence and Platinum Care Programs.

Dr. Hogan’s research arena is in musculoskeletal regenerative bioengineering with a focus on tendon, ligament, and cartilage healing. He lectures globally on the management of foot and ankle injuries, sports medicine, regenerative medicine, and clinical outcomes. As a champion for diversity, Dr. Hogan serves as the co-chair of the University of Pittsburgh Race and the Social Determinants of Equity, Health, and Well-Being Cluster Hire Program and co-chair of the Physician Inclusion Council of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC.

As the chief of foot and ankle surgery at UPMC, Dr. Hogan has been selected by as a Best Doctor by Best Doctors in America® and Pittsburgh Magazine since 2016. He was named one of DiversityMBA’s Top 100 Under 50 Executives Leaders and selected as one Modern Healthcare’s Up and Comers in 2018.

Lynne M. Holden, M.D., is the co-founder and president of Mentoring in Medicine, Inc. (MIM). MIM is a national health and science youth development nonprofit organization. The mission of MIM is to expose, inspire, educate, and equip students to become biomedical professionals through academic enrichment, leadership development, civic engagement, and mentoring. MIM has reached nearly 52,000 students, parents, and educators from elementary school through medical school and recruited 1,500 health and science volunteers. Dr. Holden provides the overall leadership, creates the organizational strategy, recruits volunteers, facilitates program development, and establishes collaborative partnerships.

Dr. Holden earned her B.S. in zoology from Howard University, graduated from Temple University School of Medicine, and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She is a practicing emergency department physician at Montefiore Health System in the Bronx, New York. She is a professor of emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she has served as a co-chair of the Admissions Committee and in various leadership positions in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, the largest in the country. Dr. Holden serves on several national boards, including the Friends of the National Library of Medicine and the CUNY School of Medicine. She is active in the National Medical Association on the local, regional, and national levels. She is a deacon at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, and a member of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.

Mentoring in Medicine has earned 60 press features, including in JET, Essence, and the New York Times, and on CNN and FOX News. Dr. Holden has published extensively and received numerous awards for her work, including the Maybelline NY–Essence Empowerment through Education Award (2007), Society of Academic Emergency Visionary Educator Award (2008), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leader (2009), Washington Post Root 100 Leader (2010), Lifetime TV Remarkable Woman (2010), American Medical Association Inspirational Physician (2016), and the United Hospital Fund Distinguished Community Service Award (2019).

Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., is a family physician, epidemiologist, and past president of the American Public Health Association whose work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of our nation and the world. Dr. Jones is currently the 2021–2022 UCSF Presidential Chair at the University of California, San Francisco. She recently completed her role as a 2021 Presidential Visiting Fellow at the Yale School of Medicine and as the 2019–2020 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She taught 6 years as an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (1994–2000), served 14 years as a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2000–2014), and continues as an adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and as a senior fellow and adjunct associate professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine.

Dr. Jones’ allegories on “race” and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. Recognizing that racism saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources, she aims to mobilize and engage all Americans in a sustained National Campaign Against Racism.

Rohan Khazanchi is a health equity advocate, health services researcher, and final-year M.D./M.P.H. student. His work broadly aims to address the structural (i.e., health system, community, and policy) drivers of health inequity across the life course. Mr. Khazanchi serves on the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education and is co-director of the Clinical Problem Solvers’ podcast Antiracism in Medicine Series. He received the 2020 U.S. Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award and the peer-nominated 2021 University of Nebraska Medical Center Student Impact Award for developing the “Structural Challenges and Inequities in Healthcare Delivery” curriculum, which directly engages Omaha community leaders to teach medical students about structural competency and social determinants of health in a hyperlocal context. He received the Nebraska Medical Association’s 2020 Student Advocate of the Year Award for writing and advocating for historic American Medical Association (AMA) policies which name racism as a public health threat, denounce racial essentialism in medicine, call for specific actions to redress the harms of the Flexner Report on workforce diversity, and advocate for anti-racist interventions in health-care delivery, clinical practice, policy, and medical education.

Mr. Khazanchi is currently applying for residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics while finishing his medical training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (M.D. 2022), where he is completing a longitudinal honors track in comprehensive HIV care. He studied health services research and health policy at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (M.P.H. 2021), where he completed a thesis examining the impact of parental incarceration on child and adolescent access to care and a practicum leveraging novel cross-sector data linkages to redress COVID-19 inequities with the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A. 2017), where he served on the university’s Board of Trustees and defended a neurobiology honors thesis.

Alden M. Landry, M.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, assistant dean for the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, associate director and advisor for the William B. Castle Society, and director of health equity education at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as senior faculty at the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and is the founder and co-director of the nonprofit organization Motivating Pathways. He strives to lead efforts for the Department of Emergency Medicine, the hospital, and the medical school that will address health disparities and improve quality of care for the most disenfranchised.

In addition to his clinical interests, Dr. Landry is involved in research on emergency department utilization trends, disparities in care, and quality of care. He also co-instructs a course at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and teaches cultural competency to residents and physicians. He promotes careers in the health professions to underrepresented minorities and mentors, scores of premedical students, medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty. Dr. Landry also leads the Tour for Diversity in Medicine, an effort to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in medicine, dentistry, and other biomedical careers.

Dr. Landry has been recognized by his peers and colleagues as a leader in health equity and social justice. He has received numerous awards for his public health work and efforts to promote health-care workforce diversity. He was recently awarded the Outstanding Academician Award by the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Albert Frechette Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association. Dr. Landry received his B.S.

degree from Prairie View A&M University in 2002 and his M.D. from the University of Alabama in 2006. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2009. In 2010, he earned an M.P.H. from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and completed the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University. He received the Disparities Solutions Center/Aetna Fellow in Health Disparities award in 2010–2011.

Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., is the University Professor at the University of Connecticut (one of only two at the school). He earned his B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton, his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering/biotechnology from MIT, and his M.D., magna cum laude, from the Harvard Medical School. In science, Dr. Laurencin is the pioneer of the field of regenerative engineering. He is an expert in biomaterials science, stem cell technology, nanotechnology, and morphogenesis and has worked in the convergence of these areas. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers created the Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Founder’s Award recognizing his pioneering efforts. In receiving the Spingarn Medal, the highest honor of the NAACP, he was named the world’s foremost engineer-physician-scientist. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded Dr. Laurencin the Philip Hauge Abelson Prize given “for signal contributions to the advancement of science in the United States.” He received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, in ceremonies at the White House.

Dr. Laurencin is committed to mentoring students. He is the first recipient of all the principal awards for mentoring in America: the AAAS Mentor Award; the Beckman Award for Mentoring; and the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Math and Engineering in ceremonies at the White House. The University of Connecticut established the Cato T. Laurencin Scholars Award, while the Society for Biomaterials established the Cato T. Laurencin Travel Fellowship Award for underrepresented and excluded students. A champion of social justice, Dr. Laurencin received the Herbert W. Nickens Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges and is the founding chair of the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute, dedicated to addressing Health Disparities. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. He conceived the IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism and Learning) Path as a blueprint for a just and fair society. He received the Hoover Medal

given in recognition of “great, unselfish, non-technical services by engineers to humanity” for his work in social justice.

Dr. Laurencin is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine, and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the first person to receive both the oldest/highest award of the National Academy of Engineering (the Simon Ramo Founder’s Award) and one of the oldest/highest awards of the National Academy of Medicine (the Walsh McDermott Medal). Renowned internationally, he is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences India, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Benin Academy of Sciences and Arts, the African Academy of Sciences, and the World Academy of Sciences, and is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Valerae O. Lewis, M.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She is also the associate director of the Department of Thoracic/Orthopaedic Center and associate director of the Sarcoma Center. Dr. Lewis is a leader in the field of orthopaedic oncology with particular expertise in limb salvage and pelvic sarcoma surgery in adult and pediatric patients. In 2011, she started the Multidisciplinary Pelvic Sarcoma Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center that not only addresses the clinical needs of this unique group of patients, but also works to improve both the clinical and functional outcome of patients with pelvic sarcoma. For the past 10 years, Dr. Lewis has served as director of the Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship Program at symposiums throughout the year and is active in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, the International Society for Limb Salvage, and the Western Orthopaedic Association.

Shirley Malcom, Ph.D., is head of the Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The directorate includes AAAS programs in education, activities for underrepresented groups, and public understanding of science and technology. Dr. Malcom was head of the AAAS Office of Opportunities in Science from 1979 to 1989. Between 1977 and 1979, she served as program officer in the Science Education Directorate of the National Science

Foundation (NSF). Prior to this, she held the rank of assistant professor of biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and for 2 years was a high school science teacher. Dr. Malcom serves on several boards, including the Howard Heinz Endowment. She is an honorary trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, a Regent of Morgan State University, and a trustee of Caltech. She has chaired a number of national committees addressing education reform and access to scientific and technical education, careers, and literacy. Dr. Malcom is a former trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and a fellow of the AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, she received the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the highest award bestowed by the Academy.

Cora Bagley Marrett, Ph.D., is professor emerita of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has held posts at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Western Michigan University; the University of Wisconsin System; and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At UMass Amherst she was provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. For 11 years, she served as an administrator at the National Science Foundation (NSF), overseeing initially activities associated with the social and behavioral sciences and later, those centered on education and human resources. In her final years, she held the second ranking post at NSF: deputy director. She was appointed to that position by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate of the United States. Over her career she has served on governing or advisory boards with the Social Science Research Council; the Russell Sage Foundation; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and the Office of Naval Research, among others. At the request of President Jimmy Carter, she was a member of the body that examined the nuclear power incident in Pennsylvania: the Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. She holds honorary degrees from her undergraduate alma mater, Virginia Union University; the institution of her doctorate, the University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Wake Forest University.

Bonnie Simpson Mason, M.D., F.A.A.O.S., is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and holds faculty positions in orthopaedics and graduate medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch and the University of Louisville, respectively. Upon completing her internship in general surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her orthopaedic

surgery residency at Howard University, Dr. Mason served as the CFO of Grant Orthopaedic Bone and Joint Surgeons from 2001 to 2008. This experience as a surgeon and physician administrator of a private practice led her to develop, in partnership with fellow physicians, a comprehensive business of medicine and practice management curriculum for young physicians. Through the founding of OPM Education, Inc., a nonprofit organization, Dr. Mason delivers this live curriculum to future and practicing physicians nationwide with the support of experienced physician and expert faculty. The curriculum has since been converted to digital media. Forced into early retirement from surgical and clinical practice due to rheumatoid arthritis, Dr. Mason rallied, turning a perceived roadblock into an opportunity to effect and create change throughout the next phase of her professional career. Dr. Mason is providing academic and practice strategy development for numerous young and practicing physicians on a one-to-one basis. Most recently, Dr. Mason has expanded her reach to include women’s leadership and coaching. Through nationwide speaking engagements, she assists and encourages women and professionals from all backgrounds and at every career stage to reconnect with their core values, define actionable objectives, and remain accountable for reaching their goals. In addition to her speaking engagements, Dr. Mason hosts an annual Empowerment Symposium in the Women’s Health Section of the National Medical Association, an annual Women’s Professional Development Symposium for Emerging Leaders in Orthopaedics.

As a surgeon turned physician educator, one of Dr. Mason’s primary endeavors includes serving as the executive director of Nth Dimensions, Inc. Nth Dimensions is an educational nonprofit organization that develops and facilitates scholarship and internship programs focused on increasing diversity in medicine, decreasing gender and health disparities, and promoting professional development of aspiring physicians in orthopaedic surgery and other specialties. Founded in 2004 by Dr. Mason, Nth Dimensions has awarded over $1.2 million in scholarships and program grants. She has successfully exposed thousands of students to orthopaedics and has increased the bottom line numbers of women and underrepresented minorities in this field.

Aletha Maybank, M.D., M.P.H., serves as the chief health equity officer and senior vice president for the American Medical Association (AMA) where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading the Center for HealthEquity. She joined the AMA in

April 2019, to launch AMA’s Center for Health Equity as their inaugural chief health equity officer. Prior to joining the AMA, Dr. Maybank served as the founding deputy commissioner for the Center for Health Equity at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014). Aimed at strengthening equity efforts and transforming organizational culture, the center became a model of success recognized by New York City leadership, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization. She was instrumental in infusing equity at the neighborhood level and advancing the Department’s place-based approach to addressing health inequities. She also set precedence with groundbreaking work at the Office of Minority Health in the Suffolk County Department of Health Services (2006) while serving as the founding director.

Dr. Maybank has taught medical and public health students on topics related to health inequities, public health leadership and management, physician advocacy, and community organizing in health. In 2012, along with a group of Black woman physician leaders, Dr. Maybank co-founded “We Are Doc McStuffins,” a movement inspired by the Disney Junior character Doc McStuffins serving to shine a light on the critical importance of diversity in medicine. She is a highly sought-after health expert in media, appearing on national and influential media outlets such as NPR, MSNBC, and Roland Martin, and in NewsOne, the Lancet, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. More recently, due to her leadership in the COVID-19 response efforts, she has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey and authored the New York Times op-ed “The Pandemic’s Missing Data” to bring more awareness to the structural inequities in the United States. She moderates the AMA biweekly web series “Prioritizing Equity,” which elevates the voices and stories of physicians centering equity in COVID-19 response efforts.

Dr. Maybank holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.D. from Temple University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She is a pediatrician and preventive medicine/public health physician.

Marcia McNutt, Ph.D., is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 2009 to 2013. During her tenure, the USGS responded to a number of major disasters, including

earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Japan, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dr. McNutt led a team of government scientists and engineers at BP headquarters in Houston who helped contain the oil and cap the well. She directed the flow rate technical group that estimated the rate of oil discharge during the spill’s active phase. For her contributions, she was awarded the U.S. Coast Guard’s Meritorious Service Medal.

Before joining the USGS, Dr. McNutt served as president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), in Moss Landing, California. During her time at MBARI, the institution became a leader in developing biological and chemical sensors for remote ocean deployment, installed the first deep-sea cabled observatory in U.S. waters, and advanced the integration of artificial intelligence into autonomous underwater vehicles for complex undersea missions.

Dr. McNutt began her academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and directed the Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, jointly offered by MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her research area is the dynamics of the upper mantle and lithosphere on geologic timescales, work that has taken her to distant continents and oceans for field observations. She is a veteran of more than a dozen deep-sea expeditions, on most of which she was chief or co-chief scientist.

Dr. McNutt received a B.A. in physics from Colorado College and her Ph.D. in earth sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her honors include membership in the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She holds honorary doctoral degrees from the Colorado College, the University of Minnesota, Monmouth University, and the Colorado School of Mines. In 1988, she was awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Macelwane Medal for research accomplishments by a young scientist, and she received the Maurice Ewing Medal in 2007 for her contributions to deep-sea exploration.

Dr. McNutt served as president of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) from 2000 to 2002. She was chair of the Board of Governors for Joint Oceanographic Institutions, responsible for operating the International Ocean Discovery Program’s vessel JOIDES Resolution and associated research programs. She is a fellow of AGU, the Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and International Association of Geodesy.

Randall C. Morgan, M.D., M.B.A., is the executive director of the W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute and an orthopedic surgeon who practices in Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida. He serves as founder and president of University Park Orthopedics in that community. He is also clinical associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Florida State University School of Medicine. Dr. Morgan also served as the 95th president of the National Medical Association in 1996 and 1997. He was the first board-certified orthopedic surgeon to hold that position. Dr. Morgan is a true pioneer in his profession and was among the first surgeons to perform total joint replacement surgery at Northwestern University. He has practiced medicine in Evanston, Illinois, as well as in his hometown of Gary, Indiana, for more than 30 years prior to his relocation to Sarasota. With the assistance of his father, Mr. Randall C. Morgan, Sr., he founded the Orthopedic Centers of Northwest Indiana and served as its president from 1975 to 1999. The center was once the largest minority-owned orthopedic practice in the United States. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and the American Board of Managed Care Medicine. He is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

David Muller, M.D., is the dean for medical education, professor of medical education and medicine, and the Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair for Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His current work focuses on the impact of racism and bias on medical education, creating alternative pathways to medical school in an effort to redefine national standards for undergraduate and postbaccalaureate premedical preparation, and developing creative training opportunities for medical students who are interested in diverse careers in medicine.

His recent honors include the 2015 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award and the 2009 American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Pride in the Profession Award. Under his leadership, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was recognized with the AAMC Spencer Foreman Community Service Award in 2009. In 2004 he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Dr. Muller co-founded and directed the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program. Founded in 1995, Visiting Doctors is now the largest academic physician home visiting program in the country.

Dr. Muller received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical

Center, where he spent an additional year as chief resident. In 2005 Dr. Muller was appointed dean for medical education and the Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair in Medical Education.

Marc Nivet, Ed.D., M.B.A., is the executive vice president for institutional advancement at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center, where he provides strategic vision and oversight in development and alumni relations; communications, marketing, and public affairs; government affairs; technology development; community and corporate relations; and institutional equity and access. Prior to his role at UT Southwestern, Dr. Nivet served as a member of the executive leadership team of the Association of American Medical Colleges, where he provided leadership on issues surrounding community engagement, diversity, and health equity at medical schools and teaching hospitals across the United States and Canada. Dr. Nivet has spent over 20 years in academic medicine developing creative program initiatives and innovative approaches to advance the mission of excellence in research, education, and patient care. Dr. Nivet earned his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from George Washington University’s School of Business. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a former president of the National Association of Medical Minority Educators.

J. Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., M.P.H., is the chief health equity officer and senior vice president for Humana. She is responsible for creating and implementing a strategy to achieve health equity across all lines of business, including care delivery, giving all communities and groups of people a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Dr. Olayiwola leads cross-functional efforts for the organization’s journey toward more equitable care. A longtime advocate for underserved communities, Dr. Olayiwola brings more than 20 years of experience in clinical, community, and academic medicine; health technology leadership; public health; and domestic and international health systems redesign to Humana. Her October 2020 Tedx Talk is a clarion call for health equity.

Prior to joining Humana, Dr. Olayiwola was the chair and professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine, where she was also the founding director of the Center for Primary Care Innovation and Transformation and co-chair of the OSU Wexner Medical Center’s Anti-Racism Action Plan. She previously served as chief clinical transformation officer for Rubi-

conMD, director of the University of California, San Francisco, Center for Excellence in Primary Care, and chief medical officer of Community Health Center, Inc., Connecticut’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center system. She continues to practice as a board-certified family physician serving a largely medically underserved patient population.

Dr. Olayiwola was a fellow of the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard Medical School from 2004 to 2005. During this fellowship and leadership training, she received her master’s degree in public health with a concentration in health policy from the Harvard School of Public Health. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Human Nutrition/Pre-Medicine at the Ohio State University and her medical degree from the Ohio State University/Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She completed her residency training in family medicine at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she was a chief resident. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Family Physicians Who Are Changing our World by the Family Medicine Education Consortium and the Woman of the Year by the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Olayiwola is married and has two school-aged children.

Janae Asali Oliver, M.P.H., is a community health manager of Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest integrated nonprofit hospitals whose mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health-care service and to improve the health of the members and the communities they serve. In this capacity, Ms. Oliver makes grants to local health and human service agencies, develops strategic community partnerships, and implements community health initiatives and interventions. Her interest spans from the areas of health disparities and equity to specific health topic areas of mental health and addressing social health needs among the patient population and broader community.

Ms. Oliver has a broad range of experience, having started her career at the steps of a nonprofit organization—Crystal Stairs, Inc., as an Americorps VISTA volunteer. She has worked at the federal and local levels of government, including for two members of Congress where she focused on strengthening constituent relationships, addressing affordable housing issues, and connecting federal grants to nonprofit agencies and local municipalities.

In 2018 Ms. Oliver completed a master’s in public health with an emphasis in urban health disparities from Charles R. Drew University (CDU), where she co-designed a program intervention called Mindful

Beauty, to address the signs and symptoms of depression in Black women. In 2019 she was asked to join CDU as adjunct faculty, teaching undergraduate public health courses in health disparities and community health and communication. Ms. Oliver also holds a B.A. in political science from California State University (CSU), Dominguez Hills, a second master’s in public administration from CSU Long Beach, and is currently pursuing a doctor of education in organizational leadership at Pepperdine University. She is proud to be part of a village and aunt to her 9-year old niece and two young adult nephews.

Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., was appointed the first full-time director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health in 1991 and NIH associate director for research on women’s health in 1994 until she retired in August 2011. After her retirement, she was named a senior scientist emerita at the NIH Fogarty International Center. Dr. Pinn came to NIH from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., where she had been professor and chair of the Department of Pathology from 1982 until 1991. Dr. Pinn had previously held teaching appointments at Harvard Medical School and Tufts University, where she was also assistant dean for student affairs. A special tribute by Senator Olympia Snowe on Dr. Pinn’s retirement was published in the Congressional Record in November 2011 commending her contributions during her NIH tenure. The Association of American Medical Colleges awarded her a Special Recognition Award for exceptional leadership over a 40-year career. She has received numerous honors and recognitions, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in 1995.

A graduate and Alumna Achievement Award recipient as well as former Trustee of Wellesley College, Dr. Pinn earned her M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, the only woman or minority in her class. She completed her postgraduate training in pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She has received 17 honorary degrees of science, law, and medicine, and the University of Virginia School of Medicine has named one of its four advisory medical student colleges as “The Pinn College” in her honor. In 2011, Tufts University School of Medicine announced the “The Vivian W. Pinn Office of Student Affairs,” named for her at the time her former medical students dedicated a scholarship in her name. She has held leadership positions in many professional organizations, including president of the National Medical Association (NMA) and is currently

chair of the NMA Past Presidents Council. Dr. Pinn serves on the Board of Trustees/Advisors of Thomas Jefferson University and Tufts University School of Medicine. She was recently elected to Modern Healthcare’s Hall of Fame, the first African American woman to be so honored, and received the Outstanding Woman Leader in Healthcare Award from the University of Michigan. Dr. Pinn also holds the position of professor in the Institute for Advanced Discovery and Innovation at the University of South Florida.

Joan Reede, M.D., M.P.H., is the dean for diversity and community partnership and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Reede also holds appointments as professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and is an assistant in health policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is responsible for the development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of underrepresented minority, women, LGBT, and faculty with disabilities at HMS. This charge includes oversight of all diversity activities at HMS as they relate to faculty, trainees, students, and staff. Dr. Reede also serves as the director of the Minority Faculty Development Program, program director of the Faculty Diversity Program of the Harvard Catalyst/Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, and chair of the HMS Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. She has served on a number of boards and committees, including the Secretary’s Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, the National Children’s Study Advisory Committee of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Advisory Committee to the Deputy Director for Intramural Research of the National Institutes of Health. Some of her past affiliations include the Steering Committee and Task Force for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, past co-chair of the Bias Review Committee of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director’s Working Group on Diversity, the Association of American Medical Colleges Careers in Medicine Committee, and past chair of the AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion.

Dr. Reede served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health, and she was the guest editor for the AAMC 2012 special issue, “Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine” of Academic Medicine. She is a past chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Interest

Group 08 on Health of Populations/Health Disparities. In 2018, Dr. Reede was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Dr. Reede is an authority in the area of workforce development and diversity. Her colleagues and mentees have recognized her with a number of awards that include the Herbert W. Nickens Award from AAMC and the Society of General Medicine in 2005, election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009, and the 2011 Diversity Award from the Association of University Professors; and in 2012, she was the recipient of an Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust Award. In 2013 she received an Exemplar STEM Award from the Urban Education Institute at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, and in 2015, she was the Distinguished Woman Scientist and Scholar ADVANCE Lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Dr. Reede was recognized by her medical school classmates as a recipient of the Mount Sinai Alumni Association and Icahn School of Medicine 2015 Jacobi Medallion for extraordinary leaders in health care, and in 2017 she was nominated by her peers and received a Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Award.

Andrea Reid, M.D., M.P.H., is associate dean for student and multicultural affairs and director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Reid is also a hepatologist and director of diversity and faculty development for gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Dr. Reid graduated from Brown University with a bachelor of science with honors in psychology. She then attended HMS, earning her M.D. in 1988. She completed internal medicine and gastroenterology training at MGH, then joined the MGH staff as a hepatologist. During her tenure, Dr. Reid co-chaired the Internship Selection Committee for the Department of Medicine, was the GI Fellowship program director, associate director of the Multicultural Affairs Office, and taught liver pathophysiology at HMS. While at MGH, Dr. Reid earned an M.P.H. in Clinical Effectiveness from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and was deeply involved in the Boston community. She was honored with several awards in recognition of her teaching and mentorship.

In 2009, Dr. Reid followed her husband to Washington, D.C., and joined the gastroenterology and hepatology staff at the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center. She focused on bringing compassionate and

evidence-based clinical care to the D.C.-area veterans, most of whom were people of color, as well as helping to set standards for advanced liver disease care in VA Capitol Health Care Network. Even after relocating to the D.C. area, Dr. Reid continued to teach at HMS for many years, and served on the HMS Alumni Council. She was recruited back to Harvard Medical School in July 2020 to assume the directorship of ORMA, which was founded and directed by Dr. Alvin Poussaint for 50 years. She was also named associate dean for student and multicultural affairs. She chairs the Multicultural Fellows Committee, serves on the Committee for Admissions, Program in Medical Education Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee, and Promotions and Review Board. She is also member of the leadership council of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program. Dr. Reid is a practicing gastroenterologist and hepatologist at MGH, and serves as director for diversity, equity, and faculty development for the hospital’s Division of Gastroenterology.

Dr. Reid has held many national leadership roles, including chair of the GI Training Examination for the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), chair of the AGA Task Force on Under-represented Minorities, and member of the Educational Committee for the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, among others. She was a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Residency Review Committee for 7 years and was a member of the the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation under U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. She is a frequent lecturer at local, regional, and national meetings and continuing medical education courses, where she lectures about liver diseases; racism in medicine; and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and antiracism strategies in undergraduate and graduate medical education. Her clinical and research interests include racial disparities in liver transplantation, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and medical education.

Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Ph.D., centers her research interests on gender and racial/ethnic inequality in educational experiences and achievement. As a sociologist of education, she is particularly interested in the role of social contexts, including friendships, schools, and communities, in increasing or ameliorating educational disparities in math and science. Her research also focuses on the complex intersection between gender and race/ethnicity in educational inequality. Dr. Riegle-Crumb’s work has been funded with grants from several agencies and foundations, including the National Sci-

ence Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Her research expertise includes quantitative research methods and analyses of national datasets.

Derek J. Robinson, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.E.P., C.H.C.Q.M., serves as vice president and chief medical officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, where he is responsible for clinical leadership, care management operations, and the Institute for Physician Diversity. Previously, Dr. Robinson was vice president at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), where he established the Enterprise Quality and Accreditation department and was responsible for clinical quality performance, health plan accreditation, and related operations across multiple states. He established the HCSC Health Equity Steering Committee and served as chairman from 2015 to 2021.

Dr. Robinson is an active member of the community and was appointed in 2021 to the Medicaid Advisory Committee for the state of Illinois. He is a member of the board of directors at the Cook County Health Foundation and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees at Xavier University of Louisiana. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, where he is the 2020–2022 chairman of the Young Leaders Committee. He also volunteers as an official with Illinois Swimming and is a nationally certified judge with USA Swimming.

Dr. Robinson is the recipient of numerous awards including Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40, 40 Game Changers Under 40 – Ariel Investments, and the 2019 Leadership in Healthcare Award by National Medical Fellowships, Inc. Savoy Magazine recognized Dr. Robinson in its list of 2020 Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America.

An active emergency medicine physician, Dr. Robinson is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and holds degrees from Xavier University of Louisiana, Howard University College of Medicine, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Altha J. Stewart, M.D., is senior associate dean for Community Health Engagement and associate professor in psychiatry at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis, Tennessee. She also serves as director of the Division of Public and Community Psychiatry and director of the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth in the Department of Psychiatry, where she manages community-based programs serving children impacted by trauma and mental illness and their families. Prior to joining the UTHSC College of Medicine faculty, she served as executive director of Memphis’ federally funded System of Care program for children with seri-

ous emotional disorders and their families. Dr. Stewart is the former executive director of the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency, one of the largest public mental health systems in the United States. She served as deputy commissioner and later interim commissioner of the former New York City Department of Mental Health, and CEO/executive director in other large public health and mental health systems in New York and Pennsylvania, overseeing the management and development of programs for persons with mental illness, substance use disorders, and justice system involvement.

Dr. Stewart received her medical degree from Temple University Medical School, completing her psychiatric residency at what is now Drexel University. In 2017, Dr. Stewart was elected the 145th president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the first African American ever elected to this position in the 175-year history of the organization. She is also past president of the Black Psychiatrists of America, the Association of Women Psychiatrists, and the American Psychiatric Foundation. She has received numerous awards and honors, including, visiting professorships at Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Davis; honorary membership in the South African Society of Psychiatrists; honorary degrees from Regis College and Christian Brothers University; National Alliance on Mental Illness Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards (2002 and 2020); and APA’s Solomon Carter Fuller and Alexandra Symonds Awards.

Lamont R. Terrell, Ph.D., graduated salutatorian from Texas Southern University (TSU) as a Fredrick Douglas honor scholar earning a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1995. While at TSU, his life as a research scientist began doing undergraduate research focusing on the synthesis of inorganic compounds with environmental applications. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 in organic chemistry from Michigan State University (MSU) under the direction and guidance of Professor Robert Maleczka. His graduate studies consisted of the total synthesis of the antiluekemic natural product amphidinolide A and the development of catalytic tin hydride reactions. Upon completion of his graduate studies at MSU, he continued his synthetic training with a 2-year postdoctoral stint with Professor Barry Trost at Stanford University. The focus of his postdoctoral studies was the development of a catalytic dinuclear zinc asymmetric Mannich reaction. He began his career in drug discovery as a medicinal chemist at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

in 2003 in their cardiovascular medicinal chemistry group. He spent 11 years doing small molecule lead optimization primarily focusing on cardiovascular disease targets. Outside of leading science, Dr. Terrell is passionately involved with community and outreach efforts. He has been involved with the recruitment of scientists at all levels into the chemistry community. He leads the GSK chemistry recruitment team for minority conferences and serves as the lead for the African American Alliance employee resource group in the Delaware Valley. He is a leader in GSK’s inclusion and diversity efforts and a member of the R&D Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council. In 2017, he decided to step away from doing science to lead the U.S. R&D Early Talent Programs and head GSK’s diversity recruitment initiative for the U.S. Pharma R&D business.

Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions. He is also chairman of the board of the National Health Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, which aims to improve the health of Americans by enhancing health literacy and advancing healthy behaviors. Dr. Sullivan served as chair of the President’s Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from 2002 to 2009 and was co-chair of the President’s Commission on HIV and AIDS from 2001 to 2006. With the exception of his tenure as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989 to 1993, Dr. Sullivan was president of Morehouse School of Medicine for more than two decades. As secretary of HHS, Dr. Sullivan’s efforts to improve the health and health behavior of Americans included the introduction of a new and improved Food and Drug Administration food label; release of Healthy People 2000, a guide for improved health promotion/disease prevention activities; education of the public about health dangers from tobacco use; successful efforts to prevent the introduction of “Uptown,” a nonfiltered, mentholated cigarette by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; inauguration of a $100 million minority male health and injury prevention initiative; and implementation of greater gender and ethnic diversity in senior positions of HHS, including the appointment of the first female director of the National Institutes of Health, the first female and first Hispanic surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, and the first African American commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

Hannah Valantine, M.D., received her M.B.B.S. degree (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery; the United Kingdom’s equivalent to an M.D.) from St. George’s Hospital, London University in 1978. After that, she moved to the University of Hong Kong Medical School for specialty training in elective surgery before returning to the United Kingdom. She was awarded a diploma of membership by the Royal College of Physicians in 1981. In addition, she completed postgraduate training and numerous fellowships, serving as senior house officer in cardiology at Brompton Hospital and registrar in cardiology and general medicine at Hammersmith Hospital. In 1985, Dr. Valantine moved to the United States for postdoctoral training in cardiology at Stanford University, and in 1988, she received a doctor of science in medicine from London University. She became a clinical assistant professor in the Cardiology Division at Stanford and rose through the academic ranks to become a full professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of heart transplantation research. She came to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2014 to continue her research while also serving as the first National Institutes of Health chief officer of scientific workforce diversity. Dr. Valantine has received numerous awards throughout her career, including a Best Doctor in America honor in 2002. She has authored more than 160 primary research articles and reviews and previously served on the editorial boards of the journals Graft and Ethnicity & Disease. She is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Transplant Physicians, and the American Heart Association, and past president of the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate.

Consuelo H. Wilkins, M.D., M.S.C.I., professor of medicine, is senior vice president and senior associate dean for health equity and inclusive excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Wilkins is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a nationally recognized thought leader in health equity and in addressing the elimination of systemic inequities that affect the health and well-being of racial/ethnic minorities.

As a community engagement research scientist, Dr. Wilkins has pioneered new approaches to engaging vulnerable, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and minority populations. She is principal investigator of three National Institutes of Health–funded centers—the Vanderbilt-Miami-Meharry Center of Excellence in Precision Medicine and Population Health, the Center for

Improving Clinical Trial Education Recruitment and Enrollment at CTSA Hubs, and the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Dr. Wilkins earned a bachelor of science in microbiology and doctor of medicine from Howard University. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center and a Geriatric Medicine fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Following her medical training, she earned a master of science in clinical investigation from Washington University School of Medicine.

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