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Appendix B: Speaker Biographies
Appendix B: Speaker Biographies
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Acosta joined the AAMC from the University of California (UC) , Davis, School of Medicine where he served as senior associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion and associate vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer for UC Davis Health System.
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Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, with the charge to build an interoperable, private, and secure nationwide health information system and to support the widespread, meaningful use of health information technology.
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Dr. Bright also served on the North Carolina Medical Society Patient Safety Taskforce; chaired the board of directors at the Lincoln Community Health Center; has spoken about health disparities before the Congressional Black Caucus; was a medical ambassador to Ghana; and has served as a mentor for the Student National Medical Association.
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The National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (in collaboration with the Reginald F Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture)
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Atlanta Post recently highlighted him as one of the top 21 black doctors in America. Ebony magazine recently listed him as one of the most influential African Americans in the nation. At the 2012 annual meeting of the American Surgical Association, Dr.
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Dr. Campbell is the learning center advisor for the Bridge to Clinical Medicine master's degree program, a program to increase underrepresented groups in medicine, and as codirector of the Center for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine conducts research to study issues affecting underrepresented minority faculty in medical education.
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Chair and Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Chief Diversity Officer, and a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) , Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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Willis Hurst Award for Best Clinical Teacher in 1991 from Emory, and in 2004 he was named the Emory University School of Medicine Resident Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award winner. For the past 10 years he has been named one of the nation's top cardiologists in "The Best Doctors in America." In 1986, while at Emory, he was also named Most Outstanding House Officer, made an honorary Morehouse Medical School class member, and he received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Faculty Development Award.
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Dyer, M.L.S., D.L.S., is President and Chief Executive Officer of National Medical Fellowships (NMF) , a nonprofit organization dedicated to building the next generation of health care leaders.
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His vision is for academic health sciences centers to lead the transformation of medicine through innovation, translation, and globalization. Leading this vision at Duke, he and his colleagues developed the Duke Translational Medicine Institute, the Duke Global Health Institute, the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, and the Duke Institute for Health Innovation.
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In 2017, he was awarded the Visionary Leadership Award by the National Council of Behavioral Health and inducted into the Florida Atlantic University Alumni Hall of Fame at his alma mater. He has also been recognized as a strong advocate for social justice, having received three different Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. Graham oversees the community health initiatives for the Foundation and Aetna Inc., bringing his experience as a former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S.
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He served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Multicultural Affairs and Special Assistant to the Provost for Health Affairs from 2011 to 2012. From 2002 to 2011, he served as the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's first Associate Dean for Diversity in Medical Education.
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Joseph B Hill is Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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in zoology from Howard University. After graduating from Temple University School of Medicine and completing her residency in emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Residency Program, she is now a practicing Emergency Department Physician at Montefiore Medical Center and serves as its Residency Site Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
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He was named by President Obama to chair the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. He also chaired the National Academies' committee that produced the report Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads (2011)
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Dr. Hurley served as interim Senior Associate Dean for Education and Academic Affairs, Chair of the Education Council, and Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Medical Education, UConn School of Medicine.
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Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., is Senior Fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Previously, she was research director on social determinants of health and equity in the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Before becoming AAMC president, Dr. Kirch was selected as chairelect of the association, and cochaired the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accreditation body for medical schools.
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He continued his training at the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. While there, he completed a master's in health policy research, received training in LEAN Six Sigma, and led quality improvement and patient safety efforts in patient and provider communication, adverse event review, and transitions of care.
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Dr. Laurencin previously served as the UConn Health Center's Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the UConn School of Medicine.
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He currently holds appointments by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and the Advisory Committee to the Director of the NIH. John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., is senior vice president for programs at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he is responsible for the Foundation's efforts aimed at transforming health and health care systems, ensuring that everyone has access to stable and affordable health care coverage, building leadership, and engaging business toward building a culture of health in the United States.
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from the University of Illinois School of Public Health. He was the first African American trained in emergency medicine in the country after completing his residency at The
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Veronica T Mallett, M.D., M.M.M., is Senior Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College.
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McGinnis was Senior Vice President and head of the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1999–2005)
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Prior to joining MSM, Dr. Montgomery Rice held faculty positions and leadership roles at various health centers, including academic health centers.
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Montgomery Rice holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University School of Medicine and her fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Hutzel Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.
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Moore III, Ph.D., is the Interim Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at The Ohio State University, where he is also the College of Education and Human Ecology Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the College of Education and Human Ecology and inaugural executive director of the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male. From 2011 to 2015, he was an associate provost for Diversity and Inclusion, where he managed numerous programs and units, including the Morrill Scholarship Program, Office of Diversity and Inclusion Scholars Program, Young Scholars Program, Upward Bound of Columbus, Upward Bound of Wooster, Community Outreach, Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male, and Administration/ Special Programs.
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In 2002, as president of the Association of Black Cardiologists, she led the initiative to implement the landmark African American Heart Failure Trial, whose findings led to a change in practice guidelines for the treatment of heart failure in African Americans. Over the past 17 years, she has led the growth of the clinical research infrastructure and training programs at Morehouse School of Medicine with awards totaling more than $150 million, including serving as the founding director of the U54 center of clinical research excellence, the community physicians network, the U54 Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI)
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, a citywide collaborative Clinical and Translational Science Awards program at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Institute of Technology, along with their partnering health systems and statewide research organizations. Since 2007, ACTSI has engaged more than 673 investigators, and 134 postdoctoral and predoctoral trainees in discovery science, training, and community engagement.
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Owen served as the first African American Chancellor and Senior Vice President of Health Affairs at the University of Tennessee, where he led the College of Medicine and five other health professions colleges. He then served for 5 years as President of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the statewide health education and medical services component of Rutgers University, the largest publicly funded academic health system in the United States.
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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 in 1995.
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Minority, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kaiser Permanente Burch, Institute of African American Research, and Ford Foundation Fellow who received a Ph.D.
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Prothrow-Stith served as associate dean and professor of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is recognized as one of the creators of a nationwide social movement to prevent violence, and is the coauthor of several books: Deadly Consequences, the first book to present the public health perspective on the topic to a mass audience; Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice; Murder Is No Accident; and Health Skills for Wellness, a state-of the-art high school health text.
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She has also worked as a pediatrician in community and academic health centers, juvenile prisons, and public schools.
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Drew University for Medicine and Science, Meharry Medical College, and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He has received more than 50 honorary degrees and has received numerous awards from diverse organizations and agencies.
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implementation of greater gender and ethnic diversity in senior positions of HHS, including the appointment of the first female director of the NIH, 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.
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Ms. White-Faines leads the AOA's strategic agenda, supporting the organization's physician and student members by promoting public health and advancing research; serving as the accrediting agency for osteopathic medical schools; and provider of physician specialty board certification and continuing medical education.
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Wilson created the position of Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer in 2014. He also created the Office of Multicultural Student Engagement to provide an inclusive environment and promote awareness initiatives that encourage academic success for underrepresented minorities and historically marginalized students.
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Nickens Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the NIH Director's Award, and the Cato T Laurencin Distinguished Research Career Award from the National Medical Association.
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His thesis focused on the characterization and therapeutic targeting of pancreatic cancer stem cells. While at Hopkins, he also served as the Regional Director for Region VI of the Student National Medical Association.
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Mr. Taylor is interested in pursuing a career in emergency medicine.
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